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The Nepali Congress (NC) has decided to hold its Central Work Execution Committee meeting tomorrow.

The meeting will take place at 3 pm at the private residence of party President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in Budhanilkantha.

NC Chief Secretary Krishna Prasad Poudel said the meeting will hold discussions on contemporary political issues.

The office-bearers and members of the Committee have been urged to attend the meeting.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is going to appoint three ministers without portfolio.

Prime Minister Dahal met President Ram Chandra Paudel this afternoon and informed that he will form a three-member Cabinet, a Baluwatar source said.

He requested the President to prepare for the swearing in ceremony.

The Prime Minister reached the President's following an agreement to form a federal government from the new equation of the CPN-UML.

Padam Giri from CPN-UML, Hit Bahadur Tamang from the CPN (Maoist Center) and DP Aryal from the Rastriya Swatantra Party will be appointed as ministers without portfolio.

Newly elected National Assembly members took oath of office and secrecy on Monday.

National Assembly Deputy Speaker Urmila Aryal administered the oath of office and secrecy to newly elected members amidst a function at the Parliament building in New Baneshwor.

Out of 20 vacant posts, 19 were elected through the election. One will be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Cabinet.

After the election held to appoint the 19 members, CPN (Maoist Center) became the first party, Nepali Congress second and CPN-UML became the third party in the National Assembly.

Krishna Prasad Sitaula, Ananda Prasad Dhungana, Bishnu Kumari Pudasaini, Jit Jung Basnet, Padam Kumar Pariyar, Kiran Babu Shrestha, Bishnu Kumari Sapkota, Krishna Bahadur Rokaya, Baldev Bohara and Narayan Dutta Bhatta were elected as the National Assembly members from the Nepali Congress.

Similarly, Shree Krishna Adhikari, Manarupa Sharma, Jhakku Subedi, Bishnu Bahadur Bishwokarma and Renu Chand were elected as the NA members from the CPN (Maoist Center).

Likewise, Ghanshyam Rijal and Sabitri Malla from the CPN (Unified Socialist), Rukmuni Koirala from the CPN-UML and Pooja Chaudhary Janata Samajbadi Party were also elected as the NA members.

A meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed.

With the formation of a new coalition under the CPN-UML in Baluwatar, the meeting has been postponed till 11 am, March 7.

According to Shekhar Adhikari, press advisor of the Speaker, the meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed till 11 am, March 7 due to a special circumstance.

The Parliament Secretariat said that the meetings of both the houses of the federal Parliament scheduled for today have been postponed.