by Kunal Purohit in SCMP, June 19, 2023Nepal’s former king Gyanendra Shah made a rare public appearance earlier this year in the Himalayan nation’s Jhapa district to launch a movement to change the country’s secular constitution and reinstate its identity as a Hindu kingdom. Thousands of Nepalis gathered at the February event to back the cause, with several marches occurring across the country since. Last month, just days before Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal,…
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By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 18, 2023The latest report of the US Department of State has said right-wing religious groups associated with India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have been providing funds to influential politicians of all parties in Nepal so that they speak in favour of Hindu statehood. In its International Religious Freedom Report-2022, the State Department, quoting civil society sources, stated that some politicians associated with the Rastriya Prajatantra Party…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 18, 2023The latest report of the US Department of State has said right-wing religious groups associated with India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have been providing funds to influential politicians of all parties in Nepal so that they speak in favour of Hindu statehood. In its International Religious Freedom Report-2022, the State Department, quoting civil society sources, stated that some politicians associated with the Rastriya Prajatantra Party…