Leader of NCP Prachanda-Nepal faction Yogesh Bhattarai. (File photo/Khabarhub)

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Yogesh Bhattarai to lead Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism

By Khabarhub

July 31, 2019

KATHMANDU: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Yogesh Bhattarai is set to be appointed as Nepal’s tourism minister.

At 4 pm today, President Bidya Devi Bhandari will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Bhattarai, who was elected member of House of Representatives (HoR) from Taplejung.

The post of tourism minister was lying vacant after the demise of the then Tourism Minister Rabindra Adhikari.