Democracy Day being celebrated across the country today

Kathmandu, Feb 19: The 75th 'National Democracy Day' is being celebrated in different parts of the country today by organizing various programmes.    

President Ramchandra Paudel is scheduled to attend a programme to be organized by the Main Celebration Committee on the occasion of Democracy Day at Sainik Munch Tundikhel this morning.    
On the occasion, tributes will be paid to the known and unknown martyrs who laid down their lives in various struggles for the establishment of democracy in the country.    

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is scheduled to address the democracy day celebrations. The government has declared a public holiday today on the occasion of Democracy Day.    

In the history of Nepal, 7 Falgun 2007 BS is considered as a glorious and epochal day for the abolition of the Rana regime and the emergence of democracy.    

Issuing a message of best wishes on the occasion, President Paudel reminded the belief that the 'sovereignty of the country should rest in the people' was established as a notion through struggle and sacrifice of the martyrs.  (RSS)