Newars in Katmandu marked "Black Day"

It's been a decade a couple of immigrant judges issued verdict, on a petition of a handful of immigrants, against the decision of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, that the city, nurtured by the Newars for over 2,000 years cannot used their local language auxulary to the government's "Nepali" language for its official language. It was an insult to the 85 ethnic grups and over a hundred local laguages and their dialects.

The Newars observed this day, raising black flags at the historic Hanumandhoka Dubar, and warned the Constituent Assembly that the new constitution, beiing drafted, must assert equal rights of all languages spoken in the country, to save the country from further conflicts.

Two programmes on Newa State in Patan

Nepa Rashtriya Party Yala Kacha organized an interaction on the party stand on federal system. Dr Keshav Man Shakya, Buddha Sayami, Suresh Pradhan, Kiran Shakya and others were speakers. The programme was organized at the meeting hall of Nepalbhasha Manka Khala Yala.


Lalipur Nagari Abhiyan and Kabi Cafe organized an interaction programme on Newa State and Constituent Assembly on Saturay, 21st of March 2010.

Speakers were Hitman Shakya, Hisila Yami and Dilip Maharjan. They stressed on ethnicity in making of federal democraecy of Nepal.