Indian weapons enter Nepal July 28 claim Maoists, PM denies

Media reports on Tuesday morning, July 28, 2009, claimed that the government of Nepal had already imported six consignments of weapons from India.

“The consignment of the weapons from India had already entered Nepal”, said the reports.

The weapons, claimed media reports, entered Nepal on Sunday and Monday (July 26 and 27, 2009) through the Birgunj customs entry point.

However, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, while addressing the Constituent Assembly on Tuesday evening, July 28, 2009, surprisingly claimed that Weapons import from India was not even in the Government’s Agenda let alone its entry into the Nepali territory.

The Maoist’s Party mouth piece, Janadisha Daily dated July 28, 2009, however, claimed that “six consignment of weapons entered Nepal though Birgunj Custom in the container Trucks with Indian registration numbers”.

“The Nepal Army had escorted those trucks carrying weapons on Sunday, July 26, 2009, as it was a day of Birgunj closure”, says Birodh Sharma, the YCL deputy in charge of Bara District.

“Three trucks entered Nepal on Sunday, they headed East of the country”, says Sharma adding, “The remaining consignment entered Nepal on Monday and were taken towards the West of the country”.

“We stopped those vehicles in Chandranighapur, Rautahat district, and asked them to reveal the content inside…after two hours of the stoppage they finally accepted that the trucks were carrying lethal weapons”, he adds.

“The consignments that arrived on Sunday were taken to the Nepal Army Barrack located in Eastern Military head quarter, Ithari, Sunsari district”, Sharma continues.

He further reveals that the weapons that entered Nepal on Monday arrived Kathmandu exactly at 3:00 PM the same day.

As a matter of utter surprise on Tuesday evening, the Prime Minister of Nepal claimed that the government has no agenda to import weapons and also rejected that the weapons have already entered Kathmandu valley.

Some thing is cooked up in Kathmandu’s dark corners! Hmm…

Nevertheless, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s address to the CA body, was intended to unlock the continuing CA deadlock which the Maoists had called seeking clarification from the government over the import of weapons from India.

The Prime Minister also said that the government was totally committed towards the peace process and will not do take any steps that have a direct negative impact on the ongoing peace process.

Posted on : 2009-07-29 08:38:19

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