Kathmandu, Jan. 10
The country is observing the ‘National Unity Day’ on
Monday.
This is the 299 birth anniversary of the founder of
modern Nepal, King Prithvi Narayan Shah, who began the national unification drive
from a small hill-state Gorkha.
Nepal Army is celebrating the occasion with various
programmes like sports and poem competition while various civil society
organisations are also organising multitudes of programmes.
A unification march of the Nepal Army is also rriving
in Kathmandu from Gorkha on Monday.
Every year, people throng the western gate of the
Singha Durbar, the administrative centre of the country, to garland the statue
of king Prithvi Naryan Shah, the unifier of Nepal.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 11 January 2021.
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