{"id":6112,"date":"2006-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/05\/21\/2006-05-21-hindu-groups-criticize-declaration-of-nepal-as-secular-state\/"},"modified":"2006-05-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T12:00:00","slug":"2006-05-21-hindu-groups-criticize-declaration-of-nepal-as-secular-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/05\/21\/2006-05-21-hindu-groups-criticize-declaration-of-nepal-as-secular-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Groups Criticize Declaration of Nepal As Secular State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.zeenews.com\">www.zeenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 20, 2006: Nepal Parliament&#8217;s proclamation declaring the world&#8217;s only Hindu Kingdom as a secular state has evoked a mixed response with the majority Hindu groups saying the decision has hurt the community. &#8220;The decision of the so-called Parliament has hurt the faith of the 900 million Hindu populace across the globe and brought about possibilities of a religious crusade in Nepal,&#8221; Shiv Sena Nepal president Arun Subedi said. The Parliament should not have panicked over preserving the only Hindu Kingdom in a world where 52 countries are declared as &#8216;Christian&#8217; and 46 as &#8216;Muslim,&#8217; the organization said. Arjun Lamichhane of the Bishwo Hindu Youth Federation of Nepal said the issue of secularism should not be raised in a country where religious tolerance has always prevailed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.zeenews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 20, 2006: Nepal Parliament&#8217;s proclamation declaring the world&#8217;s only Hindu Kingdom as a secular state has,&#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-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","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=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}