Cabinet expansion in Karnali 3 weeks after the appointment of the Chief Minister

In the ruling coalition, it was agreed to give 3 ministries to UML and 4 to Maoist . From the Maoists, Mahendra KC has been appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning, Ransingh Pariyar as Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Bir Bahadur Shahi as Minister of Social Development and Durg Bahadur Rawat as Minister of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment.

Sher Bahadur Budha has been appointed as the Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Urban Development from UML, Vinod Kumar Shah as the Minister of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives and Gomta Vick as the Minister of State for Physical Infrastructure and Urban Development . The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law has been kept by Chief Minister Kandel himself. The newly appointed ministers were administered the oath of office and secrecy by the state chief Tilak Pariyar on Tuesday. UML's Shah did not participate in the swearing-in ceremony expressing dissatisfaction with the ministry.

There has been a dispute between Shah and Kandel within the UML for a long time. Chief Minister Kandel is a member of the UML Standing Committee and Shah is the former chairman of the state committee. Shah said that he was not present at the oath-taking because the Chief Minister wanted to do it alone. "Initially, it was said that I would be appointed in the field of physical infrastructure," he said Gave the information to raise .

Minister of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperation Vinod Kumar Shah boycotted the swearing-in.

Political scientist Narendra KC says that the journey to power of Kandel, who became the Chief Minister after a long workout, was not a pleasant one. "He had to struggle a lot to become the Chief Minister, even in the beginning there was no agreement between the Maoists and the UML," he said. 6, Karnali's main problem is poverty, lack of staff and the big challenge of implementing the budget.

Karnali government's budget implementation is disappointing in the current financial year. With almost two and a half months left for the end of the financial year, the state government has barely been able to spend 25 percent of the budget. According to the Provincial Accounts Controller's Office, the provincial government has been able to spend only 8.57 billion rupees till the end of March, of which 34 percent (4.83 billion rupees) has been spent on operations and 19 percent (3.73 billion rupees) has been spent on capital.

The government had brought a budget of 33 billion 370 million 97 million for the current financial year, in which about 16 billion development budget remains to be spent . Pitambar Dhakal, the former dean of the Midwest University, said that there was a problem when the provincial government chose piecemeal schemes with the lack of manpower and allocated funds to the scheme based on access without study.