KATHMANDU, July 15: Newly appointed Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli assumed office on Monday after taking oath of office and secrecy from President Ramchandra Paudel at the Office of the President. Soon after taking the oath, he visited Lainchaur to pay homage to the martyrs and headed to the CPN-UML's party headquarters in Chyasal of Lalitpur. The CPN-UML Chair Oli became the 45th prime minister of Nepal with the support of the Nepali Congress, the largest party in the parliament.
In Chyasal, he laid a wreath at the portraits of founding leader of Nepal Communist Party, Pushpa Lal Shrestha, party's former Chair Man Mohan Adhikari and party's then General Secretary Madan Bhandari.
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Then he reached Singha Durbar to assume office at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. Officiating Chief Secretary Leeladevi Gadtaula, secretaries and the senior government officials were there to welcome the new prime minister. According to Oli’s Secretariat, the decisions made on the very first day of taking charge of his office by the new prime minister would be unveiled soon.
President Paudel had on July 14 appointed CPN-UML Chair Oli to the post of prime minister in accordance with Article 76 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal.
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