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By Our Reporter

The new coalition government of the two big parties—Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML—have appointed ambassadors, transferred secretaries, judges of High Courts and District Courts and police officers and sacked and appointed Province chiefs.

While the government relieved Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Manoj KC of his duty at the Special Bureau at the Nepal Police Headquarters and transferred him to the National Police Academy from the Special Bureau at the Nepal Police Headquarters, it also transferred 21 secretaries on Monday.

DIG KC was the first target of the new NC-UML government because he was the police officer who had dared to forward the file of the fake Bhutanese refugee. When he was the head of the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, the investigation of the refugee case was taken forward.

Bechan Jha was also brought to Nepal in KC’s initiative and it is said that Bechan’s arrest compelled NC and UML to forge the present alliance fearing that Jha would disclose Arzu Rana’s involvement in the Bhutanese Refugee scam. Now after the fall of the previous government, Rana has become a key figure in the present government as Foreign Minister and the closest representative of NC’s president Sher Bahadur Deuba in the Oli-led government.

Similarly, Deuba and Oli have divided the positions of ambassadors among them. They called back the ambassadors appointed in the quota of the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN (Unified Socialist) by the previous government.

The government called back Bishnu Pukar Shrestha from Beijing, Milan Tuladhar from Mosco Kailash Raj Pokharel from Australia, Basu Dev Mishra from Sri Lanka and Dan Bahadur Tamang from South Africa.

The previous government on June 6 had called back 11 ambassadors appointed in the quota of the Nepali Congress, but after the change of the coalition, the government has decided to give continuity to a few of them including Shankar Sharma in New Delhi.

Among the 18 new ambassadors recommended by the government include Lok Darshan Regmi to the USA, Chandra Ghimire to the UK, Krishna Prasad Oli to China, Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe to Korea and Netra Timalsina to Malaysia. All new ambassadors are from the UML. After NC took the quota of New Delhi, UML took the ambassadorial posts of the USA, UK and China.

Likewise, the government removed three Province Chiefs—Yadav Chandra Sharma of Bagmati,  Amik Serchan of Lumbini and Tilak Pariyra of Karnali and appointed Deepak Prakash Devkota in Bagmati, Krishna Bahadur Gharti in Lumbini and Yagya Raj Joshi in Karnali.