President Bidya Devi Bhandari has wished that the Republic Day-2073 inspired all Nepali people to move ahead for building peaceful, prosperous, balanced and inclusive Federal Democratic Republic Nepal on the basis of unity and cooperation.

In her Republic Day message delivered on Saturday, the head of the state said political conflict and transition the country was facing for a long period had come to an end and the Nepali people have become fully sovereign with the promulgation of the constitution through the historic Constituent Assembly.

Later in the day, President Bhandari graced a special function at the Army Pavilion to mark the Republic Day. 

Vice-president Nanda Bahadur Pun, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Speaker Onsari Gharti, Acting Chief Justice Sushila Karki and other distinguished personalities also attended the function.

In his address on the occasion, Prime Minister Oli said it was a day of important achievement with the establishment of republic as the cornerstone of social justice and equality, and by doing away with the monarchy based on unscientific principle of supremacy by birth. 

“We should take the republic day today as an epochal time when the foundation of a people-oriented and democratic system of governance was laid to build a modern Nepal,” the PM said.

Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, representatives of the district development committees, municipalities, sport associations, athletes and locals made a march-past, and took out processions and parades evoking various cultures, traditions, dances and musical instruments.