Finance Minister Sharma resigns

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has tendered his resignation from the post. 

Addressing today's meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR), Minister Sharma announced his resignation from the post to help the Parliamentary Special Probe Committee. 

Earlier, the HoR had formed the Committee to carry out an investigation about the involvement of unauthorized persons in the course of preparing the budget for the coming fiscal year 2022/23. 

The 11-member probe committee was formed where Khagaraj Adhikari, Dev Prasad Gurung, Pushpa Bhusal Gautam, Pradeep Gyawali, Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, Bimala BK, Laxman Lal Karna, Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Sarala Kumari Yadav, Sitaram Mahato and Surendra Prasad Yadav were the members.