Kathmandu, February 6
The Madhesh state government has added one Minister of State. CPN (Unified Socialist) MP has been made Minister of State.
UCPN (Maoist) MP Nagendra Ray Yadav has been sworn in as the Minister of State for Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment on Sunday morning.
Chief Minister Lal Babu Raut administered the oath of office to Yadav in the presence of state chief Harishankar Mishra. Speaker Saroj Kumar Yadav and some other ministers were present on the occasion.
The UCPN (Maoist) has got two ministers and one minister of state in the Madhya Pradesh
government. The Unified Socialists, which initially had two ministries, had been demanding one minister of state.
By Karuna Thapa
