"pro-monarch protest"

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20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden is detained near the entrance of Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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#12287455

20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden (center) walks out of the Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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#12287456

20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden (center) walks out of the Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden (wearing Dhaka Topi) walks out of the Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arsons and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chief Whip Gyanendra Shahi is detained by police as he displays a pamphlet with demands to release the arrested leaders inside Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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#12287461

20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden (center) walks out of the Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden is detained near the entrance of Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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#12287459

20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden (in a pink shirt) and Chief Whip Gyanendra Shahi (right, in a red cap) are detained by police as they stage a protest inside Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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20 April 2025

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President Rajendra Lingden (in a pink shirt) and Chief Whip Gyanendra Shahi (right, in a red cap) are detained by police as they stage a protest inside Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of Nepal, to defy the prohibitory order during a pro-monarch protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2025. The RPP wages a legal and political struggle for the unconditional release of party leaders Rabindra Mishra and Dhawal Shumsher Rana. Mishra and Rana are arrested following deadly violence on March 28 for inciting the mob. The violence claims the lives of two people and injures over one hundred as the capital witnesses arson and vandalism. The party, which demands the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu state, stages a protest assembly at Balkhu as designated by the government on April 8.

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#12273650

17 April 2025

Media persons and family members of deceased journalist Suresh Rajak protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 17, 2025, demanding security for the press. Rajak dies in the course of work during a pro-monarch protest on March 28.

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17 April 2025

Media persons and family members of deceased journalist Suresh Rajak protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 17, 2025, demanding security for the press. Rajak dies in the course of work during a pro-monarch protest on March 28.

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17 April 2025

Media persons and family members of deceased journalist Suresh Rajak protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 17, 2025, demanding security for the press. Rajak dies in the course of work during a pro-monarch protest on March 28.

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17 April 2025

Media persons and family members of deceased journalist Suresh Rajak protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 17, 2025, demanding security for the press. Rajak dies in the course of work during a pro-monarch protest on March 28.

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17 April 2025

Media persons and family members of deceased journalist Suresh Rajak protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 17, 2025, demanding security for the press. Rajak dies in the course of work during a pro-monarch protest on March 28.

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#12242690

8 April 2025

A pro-monarchist affiliated with the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) hangs a photo of Nepal's last monarch couple, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah and Komal Rajya Laxmi Shah, as they continue to protest in the streets of Nepal, demanding the reinstatement of the monarchy on April 8, 2025. Formed in the 1990s after the lift of the ban on the formation of political parties by the then-monarchical system, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) serves as a force always supporting the kingship. It also takes part in periodic elections and presents its demands. In 2008, right after the overthrow of the monarchy in Nepal, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) secures 8 seats in the then Constituent Assembly out of the 575-seat parliament. In the 2013 election, it secures 13 seats, while in 2017, it falls to 1 seat, and it bounces back in the 2022 election with 14 seats. Since its inception, the party supports the Hindu state and the kingship as interdependent in the nation buffered between India and China. The Himalayan nation of Nepal has a population of 30.55 million, with a Hindu population of 81.19% according to the 2022 census.

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28 March 2025

Bystanders watch the pro-monarch protest from an overhead bridge in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 28, 2025.

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