{"id":6569,"date":"2008-02-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/02\/02\/prime-minister-s-daughter-rises-in-new-nepal-dynasty\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T12:00:00","slug":"prime-minister-s-daughter-rises-in-new-nepal-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/02\/02\/prime-minister-s-daughter-rises-in-new-nepal-dynasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister&#8217;s Daughter Rises in New Nepal Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/breakingnews\/world\/view\/20080202-116380\/Daughter-also-rises-in-new-Nepal-dynasty\">newsinfo.inquirer.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 31, 2008: Nepal is set to sweep away its discredited monarchy, but a new political dynasty is emerging. Ailing Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has appointed his controversial daughter as a minister without portfolio, and she has moved quickly to strengthen her role as the power behind the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Sujata Koirala says she fully deserved the January 10 appointment. &#8220;I became very popular among my workers. Some people who wanted to take the leadership after my father objected.&#8221; She was elected three years ago to the party&#8217;s central committee and put in charge of international affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Sujata has waded into a controversy, creating a storm as Nepal readies for elections in April which will elect a body that will rewrite the constitution and most likely abolish its weak monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very vocal&#8230; say what I think,&#8221; she admits. &#8220;We should give power to the people rather than the federal system,&#8221; she says.  Sujata also feels a &#8220;cultural monarch&#8221; &#8212; although not the current unpopular King Gyanendra &#8212; could suit Nepal with its distinct Hindu-dominated culture. <\/p>\n<p>Family dynasties are natural, according to Sujata.  &#8220;My grandfather died in prison fighting against the Rana regime,&#8221; she recalls. &#8220;I just became a minister, I want to work as a minister, I haven&#8217;t thought farther down the road,&#8221; she says. However her father clearly has. He told a women&#8217;s gathering in Kathmandu on New Year&#8217;s Eve: &#8220;Very soon we will have a woman prime minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>newsinfo.inquirer.net KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 31, 2008: Nepal is set to sweep away its discredited monarchy, but a new political dynasty,&#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-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569","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=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}