N. P. Upadhyaya, Biratnagar: If India is around neither Nepal nor any smaller countries of South Asia need enemy.
That India is an enemy has been established in South Asian politics.
If Pakistan understands what India is in effect, then Nepal too has no less knowledge on India born 1947.
Tariq Fateh, a Pakistani national living in Canada who is the His Masters Voice of the Indian Union treats India as his own motherland.
He says he has reasons to claim so. However, the general Pakistanis-say the nationalists one differ with educated Tariq’s flawed notion.
Sri Lanka has its own bitter experience, to recall the days of the India installed Prabhakaran-the merciless man who kept the Island nation under the grip of his terror for almost three decades.
Prior to 1947, the present day Republic of India was appropriately ruled by the British India Company.
The smaller countries of the region have abundant logical reasons to ask as to why the British India Company voluntarily left its occupied territory?
Had the B. I Company been still alive and kicking in this part of the world, the politics of this region would have been completely different.
Having said that, let’s concentrate our talks on Indian Prime Minister’s separate telephone calls to the executive chief of the smaller South Asian countries.
It is these countries which are being continuously tortured by the Indian highhandedness, Nepal is the worst hit by this Indian Hindutva senility.
Modi is taken as a black spot on the face of Hinduism all over the world.
Sri Lanka is the new target of India after Pakistan and Nepal. Let’s not talk of the Maldives which is apparently the new protectorate of India.
Nepal, Bhutan and now the Maldives were the Indian protectorates. Formal declaration remains to be made.
But President Gotabaya too is made up of tough material (tempered steel) and thus PM Modi can do nothing even if he encourages the Sri Lankan Tamils to create problems for the newly elected President and the Prime Minister.
The two Rajpaksha brothers (The President and the Prime Minister) collectively if united can shield their country from the evils of the Indian Republic.
Thanks that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajpaksha is assisting his President brother who have had the brilliant distinction of eliminating the LTTE-the Tamil Tiger menace from the Sri Lankan political scene for good in the year 2009.
PM Modi made a normal call to Nepal PM Oli which was taken by Oli’s salaried “yes men” as to have been an act unparalleled in Nepal-India bilateral relations which have, notably, never been based on equality, for example the Nepal-India Treaty of Peace and Friendship of the year 1950.
Interestingly and very true unfortunately, upon signing of this treaty with India, Nepal neither has a durable peace nor could forge a stable and sustainable friendship with India-the declared hegemon and the regional Police.
The telephone call from Modi to PM Oli was not more than a routine one, however, the difference in this particular call was that Modi dictated the Nepal Prime Minister in a louder voice to forget the near to be cremated SAARC-the South Asian Regional cooperation.
In fact Modi reportedly ordered Nepal PM not to exaggerate the talks of Kalapani land encroachment by his country and that he advised his Nepali counterpart to claim that Nepal-India ties have attained new heights in the year 2019.
PM Oli and his men in the coterie did the same what had been advised by the permanent devil across the border.
After all Indian dictates have to be honored more so after the 2005-6 political change in Nepal.
Authentic sources claim that India sponsored the change, however, the emphatic assertion is being challenged by those who were in Delhi and had signed the 12-point agreement that was carefully drafted by Shyam Saran in Hindi which was then translated into Nepali.
And our leaders stationed in Delhi then were forced to sign the draft.
The Republican order thus came as a result of this Indian maneuvering, it is strongly believed.
Mr. Saran has then logical reasons to smile.
While the Ministers close to PM Oli opine that “With PM Modi exclusively talking with PM Oli, the land encroachment issue appear to get a restart as per the Nepali demands and that India is now all set to begin fresh talks with Nepal on the resolution of the land encroachment issue.
However, rebuking the Nepali euphoria over the Kalapani issue, the Indian spokesperson Mr. Rubbish Kumar has clarified that the new map released by the Indian establishment including Nepal’s Limpiyadhura-Kalapani were certified Indian territories and that India shall not allow Nepal to claim its land.
“India has not grabbed Nepali territory as is being given to understand by some Nepali leaders”, said Rubbish Kumar.
Interestingly, a section of Nepali media prefers not to write against India on Kalapani encroachment but instead advises the Oli government to award the Kalapani area ion what they call “LEASE” for some specified period.
But the fact is that it is these media men who fail to assert that the Kalapani was a Nepali territory.
The LEASE notion initiated by the tilted Nepali media has just been repeated by Ms. Sujata Koirala who said the other day that Kalapani be awarded to India under the LEASE Scheme.
Striking similarity? Has this suggestion originated from the same place for example Lainchour?
This section supporting the LEASE theory must have anti-China posture.
Not sure yet.
Mr. Rubbish Kumar though has told that official level talks will resume shortly as per the demands of the Nepali side but the Nepali population understand that such explanations or for that matter “notifications” from the Indian quarters are made to pacify the population and the so called nationalists including the salaried agents.
The Mera Bharat Mahan Nepali leaders prefer not to raise the land grab issue simply because they conclude that such petty issues may derail their ROTI, BETI relations with India.
This relation (ROTI and BETI) as such now exists with China as well. Many Nepali nationals have married Chinese girls. Does this mean that Nepal-China borders be kept open line that we have unnecessarily with India?
The January 1/2020 call of the Indian PM Modi was in essence to warn the South Asian leaders to keep themselves apart from the SAARC and instead focus on how to strengthen and expand the India designed child The Bay of Bengal Initiative (BIMSTEC).
In fact, the Indian regime under Hindu fanatic Modi prefers BIMSTEC to be an integral part of the Indo Pacific Strategy by formally cremating the SAARC regional body.
And for this, the US may not have, let’s presume it to have been so, assigned this task to PM Modi but in order to please President Donald Trump and to gain his personal/official favor for his brutal regime (India), Modi is hell bent on killing the SAARC body.
However, some half-baked Nepali intellectuals including some self-declared Media veterans claim that since the Indian Prime Minister made telephone calls to Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives then he must have talked on the revival of the SAARC organization.
The men in the Oli’s coterie have begun day dreaming which is not good, as medical practitioners say, for their personal health.
That PM Modi’s exclusion of the telephonic talks with Pakistan and Afghanistan does hint that Modi has already said good bye to the SAARC body and that he intends to tame the BIMSTEC and finally merge into what is called as Indo-Pacific Strategy-the IPS.
Ignoring Afghanistan could have been the Indian thinking concluding that since Pakistan has been mediating the Afghan conflict and that Afghanistan too has not felt the need to invite India for the resolution of the Conflict and thus Modi preferred to ignore Afghanistan in his telephone talks. This means that Afghanistan too has rejected the Indian entry into the conflict resolution issue.
India can never be a peace maker.
The US appears to be in full knowledge that Indian entry into the conflict resolution shall flare up the issue instead of subsiding. The US choice definitely is Pakistan, it could thus be inferred.
What is puzzling is that why the lone Super Power trusts so much this South Asian regional hegemon now led by fundamentalist Hindu who has even terrorized the Hindu population of Nepal who are definitely a special breed of the Hinduism who do not believe in terrorizing other religions such as the Muslims and the Christians?
Frankly speaking, the USA by reposing trust on an expansionist regime has been doing a great injustice to the smaller countries of South Asia that unfortunately have their next door neighbor as India.
Life is hell when India is your next door neighbor.
If the US continues to honor India more than this Regional Police State deserves, the smaller countries tortured by the Indian regime will certainly prefer to distance themselves with the US and even doubt the US political credentials.
It is not for nothing been said that the US looks Nepal and the smaller countries of South Asia through the Indian lens.
In fact the US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation offer is being held suspect in Nepal simply because the US wants Nepal to get prior approval from India for some projects under MCC to begin in Nepal.
The MCC is not a trilateral affair, say the critics of the US grant project.
Then why India in the MCC agreement with Nepal?
The question is logical indeed.
Analyst Bharat Dahal and senior Communist leaders like Bhim Rawal and Dev Gurung rightly ask as to why the MCC grant offer to Nepal has a binding clause in the Nepal-US agreement that Indian approval is a must to go ahead with certain projects associated with the MCC.
These political veterans ask the US as to why is the entrance of India in a pure bilateral agreement?
However, the fresh press conference summoned by the Chinese Ambassador Hou Yanqui does tell that China prefers to warn the Nepali leaders to ratify the Millennium Challenge grant offer only after thoroughly studying the “real intent” of the US.
In an oblique manner the Chinese Ambassador Ms. Hou wants to send signals to the Nepali side that China may not tolerate any Nepali tricks that are, under influence from some interested quarters, hit the core interests of China.
However, China too must not dare to send its third grade nationals, rather criminals to Kathmandu under any pretext who create troubles for Nepal and the Nepali people.
Some Chinese national having illegitimate mindset of late have been cheating Nepal and its nationals by residing in Nepali territories which need to be checked or else if China intends to disturb Nepal then Nepal too is not obliged to stick to its One China Policy.
Saleable Nepali nationals may join other camps, preferably the camp of the Dalai lama, which will bring in more problems for China from Kathmandu.
But the sudden dash of Nepal’s Home Minister Ram Thapa Badal (who spent some good ten years in India enjoying Indian hospitality) to China at a time when an intense debate on MCC is going on in Kathmandu is simply puzzling.
The puzzle doubles when one understands that Nepal’s Home Minister is in China close on the heels of Ambassador Hou Yanqui’s hurriedly summoned press conference wherein she more than once hinted not to ratify the US’s MCC offer in haste.
What does all these mean? Is Thapa playing double?
Nepal’s Home Minister “reassured” China that Nepal shall remain ever committed to One China Policy.
This speaks as to why Nepali Home Minister may have been summoned to Beijing.
Home Minister Ram bahadur Thapa resided in Delhi for a decade during the People’s War.
This is puzzling. China is not puzzled though.
Fresh reports suggest that the Indian establishment has begun secret activities in order to unseat Prime Minister KP Oli from the current post. Domestic agents have become active which include those who have had a decade long stint in NOIDA Delhi long time back.
If and when Oli is replaced, he will surely be replaced by trusted and tested yes man of the Indian establishment. Keep on guessing. That’s all.