Constituent Assembly Chairman and CPN-UML Vice-Chairman Subash Chandra Nembang will be cremated with state honors on Thursday.
Party Publicity Department Secretary Gagan Bista said that Nembang will be cremated with state honors at the Pashupati Aryaghat at 11 am today.
The mortal remains of Nembang were kept at the party headquarters in Chyasal, Lalitpur for final tributes till 1 pm on Wednesday. Then the body was taken to the Baluwatar-based residence.
The government has announced a public holiday today to mourn the death of a key architect of Nepal’s new constitution.
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The government has also decided to fly the national flag at half-mast in all the government offices and Nepali missions abroad to mourn the demise of Nembang.
Nembang succumbed to a heart attack at 1:40 am on Tuesday while receiving treatment at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj. He was 71.
