Revisiting secularism is not off the table in Congress, interview with Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat (kp 21/04/2025) [What the 2015 constitution calls secularism is merely the freedom of people to practise their ancestral religion, but not a strict separation of state and religion. The problem lies in the lack of social inclusion. A small minority of male Khas Arya dominates politics and all areas of public life and identifies the nation with its own culture and religion. This is an affront to the ethnic and cultural diversity of Nepalese society.]

NC and Sanaatan State: Myth or Reality, by Chhering Yonzon (rep 23/02/2024) [The number of NC politicians advocating a return to the Hindu state during the Mahasamiti seems disproportionately high. This is due to the fact that at the upper levels of the NC, similar to the other parties, there are predominantly (male) Khas Arya, who simply do not want to understand the multi-ethnicity of Nepal and the centuries-long discrimination of non-Khas Arya under the Hindu monarchy!]

Unconventional convention : Hindu state agenda divides the Nepali Congress as religious tension grips the Tarai, by Shristi Karki (nt 23/02/2024)

Rastriya Prajatantra Party submits demand for Hindu state reinstatement : Top leaders submit 40-point charter to Prime Minister Dahal, and announce protest programmes (kp 22/02/2024)

Inside the NC, voices in favor of Hindu state are gaining ground, by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (ae 21/02/2024) [This is where the NC shows its true face and makes it clear that it is not a socialist and democratic party that stands up for the concerns of all citizens of the country, but a club for the preservation of the power and privileges of the small male Khas Arya elite!]

NC leaders, including 22 central members, to announce Special Campaign for Sanatan Hindu State today (kh 17/02/2024) [To identify the state and the nation with a single culture and religion is a crime against the multi-ethnic and multi-religious society of Nepal! The country is not the property of predominantly male high caste Hindus, even though they have pretended to be for centuries!]

Clamour for Hindu state : A political ideology that favours nativism and monoculturalism has no place in a democracy (kp 16/02/2024)

Congress group aims to put Hindu state on party meet agenda : While proponents say the party should listen to people’s voices, others dismiss the agenda as a non-starter (kp 15/02/2024) [Those who advocate a return to a Hindu state ignore the multi-ethnicity and the multi-cultural and multi-religious character of Nepalese society. Such people oppose social inclusion and are therefore anti-democrats. Political parties that advocate such policies should be ignored! They only stand for the preservation of power and privileges of a predominantly male small elite!]