Sonam Lhosar being celebrated across the Country:President and Prime Minister give their best wishes

January 22, Kathmandu: The Sonam Lhosar is being celebrated across the country t by people of the Tamang and Yolmo community.

The festival is celebrated to mark the beginning of a new year according to the eastern lunar calendar.

Historically, people of the Tamang and Yolmo communities began celebrating the harvest of crops and agriculture.

As ‘Sonam’ translates to agriculture and ‘Lhosar’ translates to ‘beginning of a new era’ in Tamang language, the tradition came to be known as Sonam Lhosar.

The festival falls on the first full moon of the month of Magh every year.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said that festivals like Sonam Lhosar enhance the spirit of mutual harmony, tolerance, and fraternity among all Nepalis.

In a message on the occasion of Sonam Lhosar, the President expressed the belief that such festivals help further strengthen national unity and provide the strength to everyone to move forward to build an economically and socially prosperous country.

She has also expressed best wishes for happiness, peace, good health, and prosperity to all Nepali sisters and brothers living in the country and abroad.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamala Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said Nepal’s festivals have carried huge historic and scientific significance.

In a message of best wishes on the occasion of the Sonam Lhosar festival, celebrated mainly by the Tamang community from the mountain and upper hilly regions of the country, PM Dahal said that all ethnic communities have their own cultures and tradition.

 He reminded that the country got secularism, proportional representation, and a federal republic after seven-decade-long struggle for democracy. The government has announced a public holiday today as in the past.