{"id":6848,"date":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/29\/nepal-votes-to-abolish-monarchy\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","slug":"nepal-votes-to-abolish-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/29\/nepal-votes-to-abolish-monarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Votes to Abolish Monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7424302.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 29, 2008: The Himalayan nation of Nepal has become the world&#8217;s newest republic, ending 240 years of monarchy. A constituent assembly meeting in the capital, Kathmandu, overwhelmingly voted to abolish royal rule. The Maoists, the largest party after laying down arms and standing in last month&#8217;s elections, were committed to ousting King Gyanendra. People celebrated wildly in the streets of the capital after news of the assembly vote.<\/p>\n<p>The approved proposal states that Nepal is &#8220;an independent, indivisible, sovereign, secular and an inclusive democratic republic nation&#8221;. Royal privileges &#8220;will automatically come to an end&#8221;, the declaration says. It also states that the king&#8217;s main palace must be vacated within a fortnight, to be transformed into a museum. <\/p>\n<p>The Maoists and other politicians are being conciliatory about the monarch now being ousted and say he should live on in Nepal as a private citizen. Some militant pro-Hindu and pro-royal factions are campaigning against Nepal&#8217;s shedding of its royal &#8211; and its officially Hindu &#8211; status.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.bbc.co.uk KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 29, 2008: The Himalayan nation of Nepal has become the world&#8217;s newest republic, ending 240 years,&#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-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}