{"id":43785,"date":"2026-03-10T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43785"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:50:14","slug":"bhutan-pm-congratulates-rabi-lamichhane-and-balen-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bhutan-pm-congratulates-rabi-lamichhane-and-balen-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan PM Congratulates Rabi Lamichhane and Balen Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March, 10:\u00a0 Bhutan\u2019s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has congratulated Rabi Lamichhane, chairman of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, and senior party leader Balen Shah for their success in Nepal\u2019s House of Representatives elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a message shared on social media on Tuesday, Tobgay praised the leaders for their electoral victory and expressed hope that the warm friendship between Bhutan and Nepal would continue to deepen.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed respect for Nepal\u2019s democratic process and voiced confidence that bilateral relations between the two countries would be further strengthened in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeartfelt congratulations to Balen Shah and Rabi Lamichhane on securing a historic victory in Nepal\u2019s general elections. I would also like to congratulate the people of Nepal for successfully conducting the elections. I look forward to further strengthening the warm friendship between our two countries,\u201d Tobgay said in his message.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday evening, India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi also spoke with Lamichhane and Shah over the phone to congratulate them on their electoral success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March, 10:\u00a0 Bhutan\u2019s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has congratulated Rabi Lamichhane, chairman of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, and senior party leader Balen Shah for their success in Nepal\u2019s House of Representatives elections. In a message shared on social media on Tuesday, Tobgay praised the leaders for their electoral victory and expressed hope that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785"}],"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=43785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43788,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785\/revisions\/43788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}