Kathmandu : Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung, has assumed the office today.

Minister Gurung reached the Ministry at Singha Durbar to assume the office after taking oath of office from President Ramchandra Paudel.

Gurung, deputy general secretary of the CPN (UML), is an elected member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Lamjung district.

Earlier, Gurung was chief minister of Gandaki Province.

Born in 1958 BS, Gurung joined student politics and then was taken to custody twice for being involved in teachers’ movement in 1981.

As a leader of the Party Area Committee of the then CPN (ML), Gurung initiated farmers agitation in 1982 and anti Panchayat struggle in 1989 and as the coordinator of the joint publicity committee for multiparty system of the CPN (ML) and Nepali Congress during People’s Movement I in 1990.