KP Sharma, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal, has been sworn in as the 41st Prime Minister of Nepal. On Thursday evening, President Vidya Devi Bhandari administered her oath. Sharma sat in power after the resignation of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
11 years after the abolition of Maoist armed movement KP Sharma was elected the first prime minister under the new constitution.
A new constitution was made to convert Nepal from Hindu monarchy to federal republic structure.
K.P. Sharma took oath after Sher Bahadur Deuba was removed from the post of Prime Minister. In the last parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's party lost to Nepalese Left Democratic Alliance.
The monarchy ended in the face of the mass mass movement of 2006. Nepal has emerged as a democratic country.