{"id":43274,"date":"2026-03-02T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43274"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:44:59","slug":"holi-spreads-message-of-national-unity-president-thapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/holi-spreads-message-of-national-unity-president-thapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Holi spreads message of national unity: President Thapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March 2: Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa has said the Fagu purnima (Holi festival), observed as a festival of colours, reflects Nepal&#8217;s ethnic, lingual and cultural diversity and gives a message of national unity.<\/p>\n<p>Giving a message of best wishes on Holi festival today, President Thapa reminded the Holi festival bears cultural and historical importance. It helps in fostering love and unity, he added. &#8220;I wish the Holi festival inspired all Nepalis to devote to love, harmony, tolerance and reconciliation in family and society,&#8221; Thapa said in the message.<\/p>\n<p>He also viewed this year&#8217;s Holi festival is being observed on the eve of House of Representatives (HoR) election, a democratic exercise. Thapa expressed belief that the March 5 HoR election would be held successfully to consolidate democracy and pave way for national building.<\/p>\n<p>The NC further wished peace, prosperity and happiness to all Nepalis on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 2: Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa has said the Fagu purnima (Holi festival), observed as a festival of colours, reflects Nepal&#8217;s ethnic, lingual and cultural diversity and gives a message of national unity. Giving a message of best wishes on Holi festival today, President Thapa reminded the Holi festival bears cultural and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43274","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\/43274"}],"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=43274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43276,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43274\/revisions\/43276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}