Newly appointed ministers of the Janata Samajbadi Party took the oath of office and secrecy on Monday.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari on the recommendation of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba appointed Mrigendra Kumar Singh Yadav as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Mohammad Istiyak Rai as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport and Pradip Yadav the Minister for Forest and Environment.

President Bhandari administered the oath of office and secrecy to newly appointed ministers in the presence of Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, Prime Minister Deuba and National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Timilsena, amidst a special ceremony at Sheetal Niwas this evening.

The party had recalled its three of four ministers from the government this morning.

Earlier, the CPN (Unified Socialist) had reshuffled four of its ministers in the government.