{"id":40341,"date":"2026-01-18T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40341"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:00:41","slug":"balen-shah-resigns-as-kathmandu-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/balen-shah-resigns-as-kathmandu-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Balen Shah Resigns as Kathmandu Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Jan 18:\u00a0 Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Balen Shah, has resigned from his post. Shah submitted his resignation to Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to contest the upcoming election from Jhapa\u20135 as a candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The party has also designated Shah as a senior leader.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40342\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615945657_10239742364439999_6897005042549133266_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1075\" height=\"1286\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Jan 18:\u00a0 Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Balen Shah, has resigned from his post. Shah submitted his resignation to Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol on Sunday. He is set to contest the upcoming election from Jhapa\u20135 as a candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The party has also designated Shah as a senior leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40341","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\/40341"}],"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=40341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40344,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341\/revisions\/40344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}