Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa is all set to expand the cabinet next week, inducting leaders from Sadbhawana and other parties, Space Time daily reported Friday.

PM Thapa held discussions with cabinet members during Thursday’s meeting and reached the conclusion, the report said. “PM Thapa will try his best to form an all-party government. The cabinet will be around 30-members after the expansion,” the report said quoting sources.

PM Thapa has time and again called two major parliamentarian parties, Nepali Congress and CPN-UML to join the government. When the big parties did not heed to PM Thapa’s call, he is now taking a faction of Nepal Sadbhawana Party with him, the report said.

Except NC and UML, all other fringe parties, including Sadbhawana, had less than 5 percent representation in the dissolved parliament.

PM Thapa’s own party RPP was also pressing the government for cabinet expansion. During his appointment on June 4, 2003, PM Thapa received direction from the King to form an all-party government at the earliest.

The PM has, so far, failed to fulfill the direction despite several efforts. There are only seven ministers, all from RPP, in the present cabinet. nepalnews.com mr Sept 19