KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — About 500 protesters demanding Nepal be declared a Hindu state in the new constitution have clashed with police in the capital.
Demonstrators chanted slogans today as they tried to force through a police barricade on the street leading to the Constituent Assembly building in Kathmandu.
No one was injured in scuffles with police officers and there were no arrests.
Nepal was declared a secular republic after its centuries old monarchy was abolished in 2008. Kings were believed by many Nepalese to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.
Hindu groups are now demanding that the Himalayan nation again be declared a Hindu state in the new constitution.
Political fighting has delayed an agreement on the constitution, which was initially supposed to have been drafted by 2010.
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