{"id":30593,"date":"2025-09-07T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=30593"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:32:05","slug":"balen-supports-gen-z-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/balen-supports-gen-z-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Balen supports Gen Z protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 7:\u00a0 \u00a0Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah has expressed support for the Gen Z generation\u2019s protest scheduled for Monday against the government\u2019s move to shut down social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on social media, Shah said he could not physically join the demonstration due to the age restriction but fully supported it. He stressed that the rally was a spontaneous initiative of youths under 28 and urged political parties, leaders, cadres, lawmakers, and activists not to use it for personal or partisan interests.<\/p>\n<p>Shah added that it was important to listen to the aspirations and concerns of young people, even if he himself was unable to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 7:\u00a0 \u00a0Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah has expressed support for the Gen Z generation\u2019s protest scheduled for Monday against the government\u2019s move to shut down social media platforms. In a statement on social media, Shah said he could not physically join the demonstration due to the age restriction but fully supported it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30596,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593\/revisions\/30596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}