{"id":45272,"date":"2018-10-24T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=45272"},"modified":"2018-10-24T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:57:48","slug":"nepal-president-pm-under-fire-for-vijayadashami-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nepal-president-pm-under-fire-for-vijayadashami-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal President, PM under fire for Vijayadashami celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari faced criticism after some pictures of the head of state putting \u2018tika\u2019 on Vijayadashami day on the foreheads of many people, including senior government officials who were seen kneeling down in front of her .<\/p>\n<p>On Vijayadashami, one of the rituals include elders blessing others by putting a \u2018tika\u2019 on their forehead. Many people visited Bhandari at her house on the day. Retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Gopal Prasad Parajuli knelt down on the carpet as the President, who was sitting on a high chair, applied \u2018tika\u2019 on him. A retired Army Chief also took \u2018tika\u2019 from Bhandari by squatting on the floor in front of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should the head of a secular state maintain the erstwhile royal tradition and treat people in high places and ordinary people as subjects,\u201d asked a senior bureaucrat.<\/p>\n<p>PM K P Oli, also opened his official residence to the general public for them to get \u2018tika\u2019 on Vijayadashami day.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari faced criticism after some pictures of the head of state putting \u2018tika\u2019 on Vijayadashami day on the foreheads of many people, including senior government officials who were seen kneeling down in front of her . On Vijayadashami, one of the rituals include elders blessing others by putting a \u2018tika\u2019 on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45275,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45272\/revisions\/45275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}