{"id":152791,"date":"2015-10-28T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=152791"},"modified":"2015-10-31T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:28:24","slug":"nepalese-parliament-elects-first-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nepalese-parliament-elects-first-female-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepalese Parliament Elects First Female President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A communist politician who has long campaigned for women\u2019s rights has become Nepal\u2019s first female president.\u00a0Bidhya Devi Bhandari is deputy leader of the ruling Communist party and campaigned to secure women\u2019s rights under the new constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/oct\/28\/nepalese-parliament-first-female-president-bidhya-devi-bhandari?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in the Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bidhya-Devi-Bhandari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bidhya-Devi-Bhandari.jpg\" alt=\"Bidhya Devi Bhandari\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bidhya-Devi-Bhandari.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bidhya-Devi-Bhandari-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":152792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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