The appointments made by the Sushila Karki-led government, formed on the strength of the Gen-G movement demanding an end to corruption and good governance, have become controversial. The officials appointed by the Prime Minister have been making appointments to their close associates and making decisions that benefit them.

Prime Minister Karki's Chief Personal Secretary Adarsh ​​Shrestha is currently embroiled in controversy over the appointment of his wife to the Prime Minister's Secretariat. Earlier, Attorney General Savita Bhandari was criticized for her decision not to prosecute a company she had invested in that was being investigated for egg smuggling. Upon being appointed as the Prime Minister, Karki appointed Nasu Shrestha, who works in the Information Technology Division of the Supreme Court, as his Chief Personal Secretary. When Karki was the Chief Justice, Shrestha was in charge of business management.

Based on that old acquaintance and trust, Karki appointed him, who was working as a computer operator, as his Chief Personal Secretary on 29 Bhadra. On 2 Asoj, the fourth day after being appointed as the Prime Minister's Chief Personal Secretary, who would receive service facilities similar to a secretary, Shrestha appointed his wife Sangeeta Shrestha as the Prime Minister's Personal Joint Secretary, with service facilities similar to a joint secretary.

After this matter became public, the Prime Minister's Press Coordinator Ram Bahadur Rawal issued a statement requesting that the Prime Minister not question the appointment, saying that the Prime Minister had chosen a trustworthy person. ‘The Prime Minister has selected and appointed a trusted person who can provide family support to the Prime Minister, who is the only person left in her family and who is elderly.

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Since the Prime Minister has to provide close assistance and work with him 24 hours a day, we request you not to question the legal appointment of a person who is trustworthy, reliable and can work day and night, even for security reasons, and to not interpret it otherwise,’ the statement said. ‘In addition, in other appointments, it is seen that the Chief Personal Secretary has been unnecessarily linked to him by insulting him and sometimes being forcibly promoted as a relative based on surname and sometimes on the basis of similar ethnic background, so we request you not to do so.’

 

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The statement did not answer the question whether Shrestha had appointed Mrs. Sangeeta as Joint Secretary or not. Rather, Rawal's statement mentioned that the news related to this was trying to distract the government's attention from the election. "While this government is striving to maintain good governance in accordance with the spirit and spirit of the Gen-G movement and conduct elections in a clean, fair, and fearless manner, we request all parties not to believe the materials that are intended to distract attention from it," the statement said.