JANAKPURDHAM, March 18 -- The CPN-UML is participating in the Madhesh Province government with a ministry.

Sources said that preparations are being made to appoint UML's parliamentary party leader Saroj Kumar Yadav as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development of Madhesh Province after sacking the Nepali Congress ministers today.

A Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) leader informed Republica that Yadav will be sworn in today itself.

According to him, an agreement has been reached between the new power alliance of the Madhesh government, sacking Nepali Congress (NC)' Physical Infrastructure Development Minister Krishna Prasad Yadav, Health and Population Minister Birendra Singh and Home, Communications and Law Minister Mohammad Sami...