{{Infobox government cabinet |cabinet_name=Caretaker Government of the Union of Burma |flag=Flag of Burma (1948–1974).svg |flag_border=true |jurisdiction=Burma |incumbent= 1958 — 1960 |image=General Ne Win PM of Burma 1959.jpg |image_size= |image2= |image_size2=x85px |caption= |date_formed= 28 October 1958 |date_dissolved= April 1960 |government_head= General Ne Win {{small|(Prime Minister)}} |deputy_government_head= *Thein Maung (1958 - 1959) {{small|(Deputy Prime Minister)}} *Lun Baw (1959 - 1960) {{small|(Deputy Prime Minister )}} |state_head= Mahn Win Maung {{small|(President)}} |current_number= |political_party= Tatmadaw and others |opposition_party= |election= |previous=Second U Nu Government |successor=Third U Nu Government |opposition_cabinet= }} The '''Caretaker Government of Ne Win''' was formed in 1958 after Ne Win, then Chief of Staff, took over state power from U Nu, then Prime Minister. This is the first caretaker government in Burmese history. After the 1960 election, power was restored to U Nu.<ref name="cg1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-58050227|title=ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးနေဝင်း၊ ပထမအိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရနဲ့ ပညာရှင်နိုင်ငံရေး}}</ref><ref name="cg2">{{Cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v23/d49|title=49. Memorandum From the Director, Far East Region (Heinz) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense For International Security Affairs (Nitze)0}}</ref>
==History== The political situation became chaotic after the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) split in April 1958 as a clean AFPFL and stable AFPFL party. On the morning of September 26 1958, Colonel Aung Gyi, Brigadier General Tin Pe, Colonel Maung Maung from the Tatmadaw visited PM U Nu's house. In the evening, the executive meeting of the ruling AFPFL and the current cabinet ministers meetings were held consecutively. At that time, General Ne Win paid a short visit. The Cabinet meeting decided to nominate General Ne Win as the Prime Minister at a parliamentary session on 28 September.<ref name="cg1"/> Incumbent Prime Minister U Nu has written to General Ne Win to form a caretaker government to handle the conditions. U Nu told Ne Win to hold general election again within 6 months (April 1959).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-46729131|title=ပါမောက္ခ ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်မောင်မောင်၊ မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်ကို ပုံဖော်သူ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/article/2021/08/06/244913.html|title=အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရ အသုံးအနှုန်းက ရှည်ကြာသော စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ထူထောင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်လိုပုံ ရ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-55872259|title=ဝန်ကြီးတွေ ဆေးတံသောက်တဲ့လွှတ်တော်၊ ဘက်ဂျက်နဲ့ အာဏာလုပွဲ}}</ref>
Then, in October 1958, a caretaker government was formed and sworn in at the Presidential Palace in Rangoon. Parliaments were not dissolved. This government is made up of a small portion of the military, mostly civilian ministers and local leaders. Newspapers reported that U Nu resigned and handed over power to General Ne Win, but some described it as a coup.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/world-41284436|title=1988 — 3rd coup|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-55988519|title=မြန်မာပြည်မှာ သိမ်းသည်၊ တပ်မတော်၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီနဲ့ နိုင်ငံရေးသံသရာ}}</ref>
On 29 April 1959, during the caretaker government, 34 Shan Saopha relinquished power.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/on-this-day/2019/04/29/189960.html|title=စော်ဘွားတို့ အာဏာစွန့်ချိန်}}</ref> General Election was held in February 1960 and U Nu won the election. However, two years later, in March 1962, the military seized power. == Cabinet ==
{| class="wikitable" !No !Name !Ministry |- |1 |General Ne Win | *Prime Minister *Ministry of Defence |- |rowspan=2|2 |Thein Maung {{small|(1958-1959)}} | *Deputy Prime Minister *Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Ministry of Health |- |Lun Baw {{small|(1959-1960)}} |Deputy Prime Minister |- |3 |Khin Maung Phyu |Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Informatiom, Ministry of Immigration and National Registration |- |4 |Chan Tun Aung |Ministry of Justice |- |5 |Kyaw Nyein |Ministry of Finance and Revenue |- |6 |Ba Kyar |Ministry of Cooperatives and Commodity Distribution |- |7 |San Nyunt |Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Construction |- |8 |U Kar |Ministry of Education, Ministry of Forestry |- |9 |Chit Thaung |Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Labour |- |10 |Sao Wanna |Minister for Kayah State |- |11 |Sao Hong Pe |Minister for Shan State |- |12 | *Htan Hlyan *Ral Hmung (Yar Hmone)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-56818326|title=ဝန်ကြီးပြီးတော့ သူပုန်၊ သူပုန်ပြီးတော့ ဝန်ကြီး- မြန်မာ့နိုင်ငံရေး ဝင်္ကပါခရီး}}</ref> |Minister for Chin |- |13 |Saw Hla Tum |Minister for Kayin |- |14 |Duwa Zaw Lun |Minister for Kachin State |} <ref name="cg1"/>
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{{Myanmar cabinets}}
Category:Cabinet of Myanmar Category:1958 establishments in Burma Category:Cabinets established in 1958 Category:Caretaker governments