New Cabinet

Distribution of portfolio

1. Pushpa Kamal Dahal : Prime Minister, who will also look after the Ministry for Women, Children and Social Welfare (Maoist)

2. Bamdev Gautam : Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs (UML)

3. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai: Finance (Maoist)

4. Upendra Yadav : Foreign Affairs (MJF)

5. Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal) : Defence – (Maoist)

6. Bijaya Kumar Gachhedar : Physical Planning and Works (MJF)

7. Bishnu Paudel : Water Resources (UML)

8. Krishna Bahadur Mahara : Information and Communications (Maoist)

9. Jay Prakash Prasad Gupta : Agriculture and Cooperative (MJF)

10. Asta Laxmi Shakya : Industry (UML)

11. Dev Prasad Gurung : Law, Justice and Constituent Assembly (Maoist)

12. Rajendra Mahato : Commerce and Supplies (Sadbhawana)

13. Matrika Yadav : Land Reform and Management (Maoist)

14. Gopal Shakya : Youth and Sports (Maoist)

15. Renu Kumari Yadav : Education (MJF)

16. Pampha Bhusal : General Administration (Maoist)

17. Hisila Yami : Tourism and Civil Aviation (Maoist)

18. Giri Raj Mani Pokharel : Health and Population (Janamorcha)

19. Kiran Gurung : Forest Soil Conservation (UML)

20. Janardan Sharma : Peace and Reconstruction (Maoist)

21. Gopal Kinrati : Culture and State Restructuring (Maoist)

22. Ram Chandra Jha : Local Development (UML)

23. Lekh Raj Bhatta : Labour and Transportation (Maoist)

24. Ganesh Sha : Environment, Science and Technology (CPN-United)

 

Chandra Singh Gurung’s poetry

Poetry is heart and soul for a poet. For Chandra Singh Gurung, poetry is head, too. What does it mean ?

Yes, Chandra Singh writes pretty poetry not only with heart, but also with political sense. USKO MUTUBHITRA DESKO NAXA NAI THIENA (His heart did not have country’s map), a recently published poetry book by Chandra is the perfect evidence for it.

Chandra !

If only all the absurdities

Are swept away

With landslides !

-Pahiro (Landslide)

Really, Chandra does not write for only self-satisfaction, but also for the sake of nation, society and humanity. The book has 33 do-gooder poems. Poet Shrawan Mukarung writes, ‘Chandra’s poems are both contemporary and timeless.’ If you read the book, you will really have worth-reading. Thanks to Laxmi Rai who published this book.

You may be in touch with Chandra at chandu_90@hotmail.com or chandugurung@yahoo.com.