Kathmandu. Deputy Speaker Ruby Kumari Thakur has announced that she will not participate in the wedding ceremony. She has given a strong message against the dowry system by making this opinion public through social media Facebook. <\/p>\n
Stating that she would not be able to attend the dowry-based marriage, she urged the society to move towards dowry-free, equality-based and cultured marriage. <\/p>\n
“It is not only socially unacceptable and punishable to receive or receive dowry, but also to accept marriages based on such customs, to attend ceremonies or to receive a feast,” she said. <\/p>\n
Thakur, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, said that the dowry system would have serious impact on the dignity, equality and rights of women and a collective initiative was needed to end it. <\/p>\n
She also urged the government to include a clear message of ‘dowry-free marriage’ in the marriage invitation letter and urged all sides to spread awareness that taking and giving dowry is a social and legal crime. <\/p>\n
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Kathmandu. Deputy Speaker Ruby Kumari Thakur has announced that she will not participate in the wedding ceremony. She has given a strong message against the dowry system by making this opinion public through social media Facebook. Stating that she would not be able to attend the dowry-based marriage, she urged the society to move towardsContinue reading “Spread the message of ‘dowry-free marriage’: Deputy Speaker”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-breaking-en","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rubi-kumari-thakur.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70504,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70503\/revisions\/70504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}