{"id":32316,"date":"2025-10-01T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=32316"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:37:58","slug":"pm-karki-not-to-offer-and-receive-dashain-tika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pm-karki-not-to-offer-and-receive-dashain-tika\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Karki not to offer and receive Dashain tika"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 1: Prime Minister Sushila Karki has said that she is not receiving and offering the ritualistic &#8216;Dashain tika&#8217; this year on the occasion of Bada Dashain, the biggest festival of the Nepali people.<\/p>\n<p>Although Bada Dashain is a festival celebrated with joy and enthusiasm, this year there will be no Tika ceremony as the painful memory of young lives lost and many injured during the Gen-Z movement is still fresh, said Adarsh Kumar Shrestha, the principal private secretary of Prime Minister Karki.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Karki&#8217;s secretariat has clarified that in this painful situation PM Karki will neither herself receive nor offer the Dashain tika to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The worship of Sri Durga Bhawani at Dasainghars over nine days concludes formally on the 10th day of the 10-day-long Dashain festival, also known as Bijaya Dashami after the Abhishekh or sprinkling of holy water takes place marking the beginning of &#8216;tika&#8217;.<br \/>\nTika and jamara are considered symbolizing blessings from the goddess Nawa Durga and they signify prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 1: Prime Minister Sushila Karki has said that she is not receiving and offering the ritualistic &#8216;Dashain tika&#8217; this year on the occasion of Bada Dashain, the biggest festival of the Nepali people. Although Bada Dashain is a festival celebrated with joy and enthusiasm, this year there will be no Tika ceremony as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32316","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\/32316"}],"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=32316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32318,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316\/revisions\/32318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}