{"id":41963,"date":"2026-02-09T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41963"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:37:55","slug":"ec-reinstates-guthi-head-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ec-reinstates-guthi-head-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"EC reinstates Guthi Head Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Feb 9: The Election Commission has taken a decision to reinstate Sri Bhupatibajra Lama as the Chief Religious Guru of Bauddha and Melamchi Ghyang Guthi.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was confirmed in a letter following the Commission&#8217;s decision on Sunday, legal officer Mohanraj Joshi told RSS.<\/p>\n<p>On last January 23, the Guthi (trust) had opted for the dismissal of Sri Bhupatibajra Lama from his position.<\/p>\n<p>On January 18, the Guthi had sought clarification from Head Lama, coinciding with the implementation of the election code of conduct, and dismissed from the position.<br \/>\nIn response to his dismissal, Lama lodged a complaint at the commission on January 27, arguing that his removal breached the election code.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reviewing clarification of the Guthi, which was deemed inadequate, the commission instructed the Guthi to reinstate Lama to his previous position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Feb 9: The Election Commission has taken a decision to reinstate Sri Bhupatibajra Lama as the Chief Religious Guru of Bauddha and Melamchi Ghyang Guthi. The ruling was confirmed in a letter following the Commission&#8217;s decision on Sunday, legal officer Mohanraj Joshi told RSS. On last January 23, the Guthi (trust) had opted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963"}],"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=41963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41966,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963\/revisions\/41966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}