{"id":3272,"date":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/09\/2003-07-09-world-hindu-federation-opposes-move-to-declare-nepal-a-secular-state\/"},"modified":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-09-world-hindu-federation-opposes-move-to-declare-nepal-a-secular-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/09\/2003-07-09-world-hindu-federation-opposes-move-to-declare-nepal-a-secular-state\/","title":{"rendered":"World Hindu Federation Opposes Move to Declare Nepal a Secular State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/xml\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=64009\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KATMANDU, NEPAL, July 9, 2003: The World Hindu Federation has opposed any move to declare Nepal, a predominantly Hindu nation, a secular state. A country, where 90 percent of its population including Buddhists, Vedic, Jain and Sikhs are the followers of the Arya Sanatan Hindu religion, a secular state is both &#8220;ridiculous and against the principles of democracy,&#8221; WHF President Bharat Keshar Singh said in a statement here.<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nA meeting of members of the dissolved House of Representatives adopted an 18-point agenda on Saturday, which said equal status be given to all religions by amending the constitution. However, Nepali Congress spokesman Arjun Narsingh K C denied that the agitating parties have passed any resolution demanding to declare Nepal a secular state. &#8220;We have not mentioned the word secularism in our agenda. We have only voiced for treating all the religions in an equal manner. We emphasized on protecting all the religions,&#8221; he added.<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nHPI adds: Nepal is the special target of Christian missionaries, who pour millions of dollars a year into conversion efforts in the country, even though coversion is illegal. The proposal to make Nepal a &#8220;secular&#8221; state would greatly further their efforts. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKATMANDU, NEPAL, July 9, 2003: The World Hindu Federation has opposed any move to declare Nepal, a predominantly Hindu nation,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}