KATHMANDU, June 16 (AFP): There have been countless tea parties on the immaculate lawns of Kathmandu's royal palace but none like the latest one, when the edifice, now stripped of its monarch, officially became a museum.
On Sunday, Nepal's elderly prime minister raised the national flag over the stately complex as Maoist revolutionaries rubbed shoulders with army brass to watch the pink-hued building turned over to public use.
Veteran republican activist Ramraja Prasad Singh was visiting the sprawling palace grounds for a third time, but the first as a free man.
"I was here as a prisoner twice before," said the 73-year- old, who bombed royal statues in Kathmandu in 1985.
Republican tea party at Nepal ex-king's palace
FE Team | Published: June 17, 2008 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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