NP Upadhyaya: Indian PM Modi’s Nepal visit may have pleased a section of the society but concurrently this visit also widened the rift in between some political parties. Yet some miracles did happen for domestic consumption.
Though the Indian PM Modi was greeted by his Nepali counterpart PM Oli much more than in fact the Indian guest deserved in that he was the one and the only who had committed a odious crime against Nepal and its innocent population by imposing an Economic Blockade that lasted for more than six months.
The Modi obstruction gift was timed with the great earthquake that had rocked the entire Nation on April 25, 2015, and the kids and the senior citizens suffered the worst that cannot be explained in terms.
(Among the crowd of many, this scribe too suffered the worst).
Untold sufferings were there that each and every Nepali national with Nepali soul have had to bear with the traumatic experience that, as stated earlier, lasted for all along six months.

However, some nationals with Indian brain and soul indeed enjoyed the dangerous blockade and even dared not to take the deliberate obstruction as a blockade imposed by the Indian establishment, born 1947.
Those who, sorry to say, apparently took the Indian blockade in a pleasing manner included leaders, mostly from the Nepali Congress, and a section of Nepal’s vibrant media having soft corner for the former British Colony.
Having said that let us dwell upon as to what miracles did happen after Modi’s Nepal trip.
Firstly, the political leaders who were ruling Nepal at time of the blockade became somehow or the other “die hard nationalists” for having braved the blockade and consoled the population by saying that things will come under control provided the people exhibited their total and unconditional support to the government which had secretly approached the northern neighbor China and the latter had assured the affected citizenry of Nepal that China would do all it can in order to alleviate the existing difficulties being faced by the Indian blockade.
China helped Nepal at time of desperate need.

Interestingly, the ruling Nepal PM KP Oli who was taken by the majority of the population, prior to the blockade, as a Nepali leader excessively close to the Indian regime suddenly turned somewhat pro-Nepal to which the Indian regime together with the South Block close Indian media defined as anti-India.
This strange Indian definition remains valid even as of now.
Thus a pro-India Oli became anti-India Oli. But what has to be talked and admitted honestly here is that PM Oli then not only challenged the Indian (mis)demeanor but with the lightning speed made several agreements with China that are yet to come into effect.
Since then PM Oli had been taken as a man close to China and conversely as an anti-India political personality both within and without.
The Indian TV Channels practically pounced upon Oli to the extent that talking to Rajya sabha TV, some montths back SD Muni, Bharat Bhusan and Kawal Sibbal, the declared Nepal haters, even suggested their government that Delhi must do all she can in order to defeat Oli during the parliamentary elections that were to be held in Nepal.
The Elections were held and Oli emerged with flying colors.
Conversely, the political parties that supported the blockade or at best did not make any comment(s) as regards the Indian fanaticism were penalized by the intelligent voters. The Nepali Congress tasted the voter’s ire and similarly the other parties which supported the blockade both in words and deeds too could not bag tangible gains.
The same fatigued Nepali Congress which supported the blockade then in a surprising turn of political events made a joke recently of PM Oli and his government this time when PM Modi was here “as to have forgotten the blockade so easily”?
Among the crowd of many, the NC leaders who made satirical comments against PM Oli in some way or the other are, for example, Dr. Minendra Rizal, Gagan Thapa and Bimlendra Nidhi.
Dr. Rizal was then Information minister and had stated that he did not notice the nation feeling the brunt of the imposition of the Indian economic blockade as such.

More surprise is in the store.
KP Oli as Nepal PM then who had challenged the entire Indian establishment at time of the inhumane blockade and forced India to kneel down, was seen this time serving PM Modi more than the Indian visitor justified in effect.
Oli’s hard earned image as pro-Nepal leader with brain and political acumen has once again vanished and become the original Pro-India man.
This dirty politics.

PM Oli is at no fault. If there is a fault then it is the free treatment that UML leader KP Sharma Oli received in Delhi’s Medanta Hospital for his renal impairment.
Since the Indian establishment was very much pleased with this very UML leader Oli for his Himalayan contribution for the ratification of the Mahakali Treaty from the Nepali parliament thus as a reward to this “ grand support” he was granted free treatment for his Kidney problems in the Delhi based Medanta Hospital.
The rest story perhaps the then Ambassador Krishna Venkatesh Rajan, if he so pleases and desires, can add so that the readers could understand the very inner details as to why KP Oli suddenly changed himself?
But today PM Oli no longer drops to Medanta but instead he lands in a Bangkok Hospital for the said treatment.
Miracles galore.
One Nepali Twitter man “Shwet Shardul” out of excitement asks: Is it that the incumbent government under KP Oli has shattered the NC and the Forum’s syndicate that was with the Indian regime as far as it could be drawn from PM Modi’s freshly concluded Nepal visit?
Why it is that even political personalities of the stature of Mr. Amresh Kumar Singh and Dr. Minendra Rizal have begun talking of Nepal and taking Nepali sides?
How come even a political leader of Upendra Yadav’s stature begun thinking of the Nepal Army?
NB: Upendra Yadav very recently had expressed his annoyance over the entrance of the Indian army men in Nepal for providing adequate security to PM Modi which could have been done by the national army itself?
All in all, some miracle do happen at times. However, these miracles have all happened in Nepal immediately after PM Modi’s conclusion of Nepal visit.

Now the question remains: How to take PM KP Oli now?
Is he Pro-Nepali? Or a Pro-Indian Nepali leader?
But how to arrive at an authentic conclusion?
But then the fact is also that, with the Modi Nepal visit, the “subtle” divide that was in between the ruling coalition, UML and the Maoists center, have widened to the extent possible. If, per chance, the divide is allowed to widen then the much hyped unification between the two communist parties may not even take place at all thus pushing the nation into yet another political instability that Nepal perhaps can’t afford.
India once again may cash in on from the rift in between the two communist parties thus encouraging one of the two to apply for Gratis NOIDA (Delhi) shelter.

Chances remain. The Nepal Maoists, as they themselves loudly claim, that they spent some good nine years plus residing in Noida, Delhi during the so called people’s war.
Repetition of the 12 point agreement once again being mediated by the same Indian regime.
The first 12 point did away with the Royal Institution. Now which force shall be axed by India? Keep on guessing, if at all these sad events happen.
PM Modi came, saw and divided the nation. But the Nepali Congress may benefit from this Himalayan divide.
For the road: Fresh reports have it that the Arun-3 was to be inaugurated by PM Modi during Sher Bahadur Deuba’s Premiership.

PM Modi is on record to have admitted that he was first invited by the previous Nepal Government led by SB Deuba. (See YouTube). However, as the luck would have it, the UML leader KP Oli, now Nepal PM, have had to renew the Deuba’s invitation made then to PM Modi. That perhaps explains the real inner story as regards pocketing of the Nepali river by India almost for free.