{"id":7015,"date":"2017-10-07T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T12:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2017-10-07T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T12:31:24","slug":"nepals-envoy-to-india-resigns-to-contest-upcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nepals-envoy-to-india-resigns-to-contest-upcoming-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal\u2019s envoy to India resigns to contest upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathamandu<br \/>\nDeep Kumar Upadhyay, Nepal\u2019s ambassador to India has resigned as he wants to contest in the upcoming parliamentary elections, sources said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He submitted his resignation to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Krishna Bahadur Mahara, sources said on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation will come into effect once it is accepted by the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Upadhayay said that he has put in his papers for \u201creturning to social life\u201d, Himalayan Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Upadhayay was appointed during former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala-led government in April 2015. He was recalled by the subsequent government headed by the CPN-UML\u2019s K P Sharma Oli in May, 2016 on charge of working against the country\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n<p>He was reappointed last year by Prachanda\u2019s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathamandu Deep Kumar Upadhyay, Nepal\u2019s ambassador to India has resigned as he wants to contest in the upcoming parliamentary elections, sources said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7015","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\/7015","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=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}