Quote:The second day of the three-day general strike called by Nepal’s opposition Maoist party witnessed torching of vehicles and violent demonstrations across the country.



While the situation was comparatively under control in the capital, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) supporters burnt vehicles in Biratnagar, Jhapa and several other towns.



According to television reports, in several towns Maoists targeted government offices, damaged property and manhandled government employees.



Like Sunday, Maoists came out to the streets of Kathmandu in the wee hours and started blocking roads by putting up temporary barricades and burning tyres. Educational and business establishments remained closed for the second consecutive day.



Heavy deployment of security personnel was seen at places where clashes between Maoists and security forces were witnessed on Sunday.

Quote:Manisha unhappy with Hindu Nepal becoming secular state

Kathmandu, Mar 26 (PTI):



Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala today expressed here displeasure over converting Nepal into a secular state, saying there was no need to change the status of the Hindu nation.



40-year-old Koirala, the granddaughter of B P Koirala who was Nepal's first elected primed minister, said the country never had any dispute over the issue of religion.

"I don't understand why peaceful Hindu state Nepal was converted into a secular state," she said talking to mediapersons in the capital.



Nepal was converted into a secular state three years ago by the Parliament.

"Nepal never had any dispute over the issue of religion. There was no need to change the status of the Hindu state as there was no problem in it," she said.

Manisha, a strong supporter of monarchy, said she had great respect for the late Prime Minister G P Koirala, her grandfather's younger brother, though she had some political differences with him.



He possessed a strong personality and was a dedicated politician, she said, adding he did whatever he thought was right.



Replying to a question on who should be the successor of Koirala, the Nepali-Indian actress said it is not necessary that his successor should come from the Koirala family.

The party's next general convention will decide who will be the successor, Manisha said.

"There should be cooperation among the leaders of the party not competition, she pointed out.



When asked if she is in race for the party's leadership, the actress said she has no interest in politics at this moment.



"I want to serve the country from outside politics," she said, adding "I will work for the benefit of children and orphans in the country".

She said her grandfather B.P. Koirala was her ideal in politics.

When asked about the possibility of the revival of monarchy in the country, she avoided a direct answer, saying "I am too small a person to comment on that".

On her professional work, Manisha said she will work in Nepali film if she is offered a good script.



She warned that the failure to promulgate the new constitution by May 28 will be "disastrous" for the country.

"I wish the constitution will be drafted on time, she said, adding it will be disastrous if it is not completed on time.

When asked about her marriage, the Bollywood star said she has not yet decided on the matter.

However, she underlined that she would like to settle down in her homeland Nepal.



http://www.deccanherald.com/content/60293/manisha-unhappy-hindu-nepal-becoming.html

Quote:Hindus ready for Pashupatinath battle

Indo-Asian News Service

Kathmandu, January 29, 2011

First Published: 15:54 IST(29/1/2011)

Last Updated: 19:08 IST(29/1/2011)Share



A staunch Hindu activist who fought three legal battles to safeguard the rights of Pashupatinath, Nepal's holiest Hindu shrine, has struck a new legal blow, opposing the government's decision to open the main treasury of the temple, which Hindus believe was padlocked for over 2,000 years and should remain unopened.



Bharat Mani Jangam, who took on Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas in the past to prevent their decision to sack the Indian priests at the temple, has now filed a public interest suit in the Supreme Court, asking the apex court to strike down the decision taken by the council of ministers to open the main treasury of the shrine.



"The main treasury of the temple is a sacred site that has remained locked for over 2,000 years during the reign of over four different dynasties," the 64-year-old activist told IANS.



"In 2006, Nepal became secular. It means the government has no right to interfere in religious institutions. Can it dare open the treasuries in Buddhist monasteries, Muslim mosques and Christian churches?"



[color="#0000FF"]Last month, the cabinet decided that the main treasury, said to contain fabled riches, should be opened and an inventory made of the valuables it contained.



The ministers also decided while the gold, silver and cash there should be kept in the central bank, other items should be showcased in museums.[/color]

[color="#800080"](Museums. As if Hindu religion is a dead religion to be paraded around in a show.

It's what christianism always attempts when it is yet 1. unable to smuggle out sacred Hindu Temple treasures; 2. unable to impound it all for christianism. Those attempts are made at a later stage.)[/color]



"It's appalling," Jangam said. "Hindus are not going to tolerate this rank interference in their religious matters. The government move will trigger violence and bloodshed."

(At least Nepalese Hindus are still Hindoos, willing to safeguard what belongs to their Gods.)



The Hindu activist says Hindus are not opposed to the riches of Pashupatinath being conserved.



"But it should be done legally, not by a caretaker government or mere ministry," he said. "We are asking the state, if need be, to enact a new law to safeguard the riches of the shrine, revered by one billion Hindus worldwide."



The court will begin hearing the petition Monday. Jangam has named the council of ministers and the culture ministry as respondents.



In 2008-09, the attempt by the then Maoist government to dispense with the centuries-old tradition of appointing only Indian priests at the temple by sacking them triggered widespread condemnation with India's government and major parties also adding their voices to the protests.



The unprecedented opposition forced Maoist prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to rollback the decision after five days.

[color="#800080"](Prachanda is a christian. A "Maoist". But definitely a christian.)[/color]



The following year, when the new government [color="#800080"](christianism)[/color] tried to regulate the offerings made by devotees at the shrine, Jangam filed another petition against it and the hearing still continues.

Quote:Nepal Christians threaten 'corpse' protest in burial row

By Gopal Sharma



KATHMANDU | Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:25pm IST



(Reuters) - Christians in Nepal have threatened to parade corpses in the capital to press the government into finding them alternative burial grounds after burials near the country's holiest Hindu shrine [color="#800080"](Pashupatinatha Kovil)[/color] were banned.



[color="#0000FF"]Christians account for less than two percent[/color] of Hindu-majority Nepal's 28 million people. Authorities barred them this month from burying their dead in the forested graveyard at Sleshmantak saying the land belonged to the Pashupatinath Hindu temple, a U.N. heritage site in Kathmandu.

[color="#800080"](And that's what christoterrorists do when they're 2%. Note also they have political power in Nepal. Like they do in Bharatam.)[/color]



"Burial after death is a fundamental human right and the government is violating this by not giving us any place to bury the dead," C.B.Gahatraj, a senior official of the Committee for Christian Recommendation for New Constitution told Reuters.



"If we don't get an alternative burial site we'll be forced to protest with corpses in front of the Singha Durbar," Gahatraj said referring to the government complex that houses the prime minister's office and the parliament.



The Committee was set up to push for the rights of Christians in the country's new constitution, which has yet to be finalised after the 239-year-old Hindu monarchy was abolished in 2008.



Some Christian families have been forced to cremate their dead against their tradition because they could not find a place to bury them, he said.

[color="#800080"](So? They can bury them elsewhere. But they are *deliberately* trying to [color="#FF0000"]landgrab[/color] sacred Hindu lands for christianism like christianism has done in Bharatam. Bear in mind that christian burial land is forever claimed for christianism - until the mythical judgment day. Better never to let christians' diseased corpses infect the hallowed ground in the first place. Because if you tell the christoterrorists to get their bodies out of there once they've buried it - even illegally - they will do the usual: create a big international hoopla about how "their religious rights and sanctity of their dead" are being "violated" etc, even though they are the ones who *deliberately* try to bury their kind in sacred Hindu land that is NOT public property but belongs to the Hindu Gods and hence Hindus ALONE. Then the international christists will get all angry since burial is Deeply Important to christoterrorism. And then they will try to crush the Temple in even nastier, more open ways.

Remember how the evil christos deliberately went about turning GrecoRoman Temples and Sacred Sites into basilicas and how this angered the Hellenes? It's mentioned in several books, possibly also in R.Smith's "Julian's Gods".)[/color]



Legend has it that [color="#0000FF"]Lord Shiva, the Hindu [color="#FF0000"]g[/color]od of destruction, once lived in the Sleshmantak forest where monkeys and deer roam now. The area is located on a hill next to the Pashupatinath temple, which is visited by thousands of Hindus including from neighbouring India every year.

[color="#800080"]("Legend" my foot. He lives there ever.

Flashes of the Shishigami-Sama from... never mind.)[/color]



Sushil Nahata, the head of a shrine management group said the temple land was being used as a cemetery "illegally" by Christians and that non-Hindu graves should be shifted elsewhere.[/color]



"This is the case of one culture interfering into the other," Nahata said.



A specially elected Constituent Assembly, dominated by the Maoist former rebels, is due to complete drafting a new constitution ensuring equal rights to all ethnic and religious groups in May.

[color="#800080"]("Dominated by the maoist former rebels" <=> "Dominated by the christian maoist former rebels")[/color]



(Editing by Matthias Williams)