Kathmandu, Sept. 18 -- Late on Monday night, at least two ministers told the Post that the Cabinet earlier in the evening decided to recommend to the President ruling Nepal Communist Party vice-chair Bamdev Gautam's nomination for the National Assembly.

On Tuesday, however, Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, also the government spokesperson, during a press briefing organised to make public Monday's Cabinet decision,s did not mention Gautam's recommendation.

On Wednesday, the government sent a recommendation to the Office of the President to nominate him to the upper house. Gautam took the oath on Thursday.

It was not clear why a decision already taken by the party's Secretariat on September 3 and then approved by the Cabinet on Monday h...