{"id":1950,"date":"2020-01-25T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/25\/cm-hints-at-naming-state-and-capital-on-consensus\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T16:06:00","slug":"cm-hints-at-naming-state-and-capital-on-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/25\/cm-hints-at-naming-state-and-capital-on-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"CM hints at naming state and capital on consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister of State No. 5 Shankar Pokharel said the name of the state and its capital would be determined on consensus and added that the Chief Minister has no personal opinion on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the first meeting of the Press Organization Nepal, Province No. 5 Committee in Butwal on Saturday, the Chief Minister stated that a common aspiration is needed to fix the capital of the state arguing that the psychology of Lumbini, Rapti and Bheri should be subverted.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that the name and capital city of the state would be decided based on the mandate of the state assembly members and people&#8217;s opinions, Pokharel said that the issue would be settled by following the process if that could not happen.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, CPN leader Rajendra Gautam, PM&#8217;s press advisor Surya Thapa, Organization&#8217;s coordinator Maheshwor Dahal and others expressed their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also issued Butwal Declaration calling for capacity building of the media persons and to establish a state-level mass communication academy for its study and research works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister of State No. 5 Shankar Pokharel said the name of the state and its capital would be determined on consensus and added that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[359,330],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-butwal","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}