Nepal Maoist against Upper Karnali, Seti & Arun, demand VISA regime with India
The Unified Maoists’ Party has challenged India to withdraw its investment in 300 MW Upper Karnali Hydro Power Project in the district of Dailekh and other small projects wherein Indian companies are currently involved.
Lila Mani Pokharel, the Unified Maoists’ Party Water Resources Bureau Chief, while addressing a program jointly organized by Federation of Water and Energy Consumers and Economic Journalists’ Forum in Kathmandu said that the fresh Indian threat to withdraw construction of Upper Karnali Hydro Electric Power Project was a welcome move.
The Indian government had recently expressed serious concerns over the move of Unified Maoists’ Party to halt the construction works of the project and threatened to withdraw construction works permanently if the Maoists’ cadres continue to intimidate the project workers.
“The Indian threat is meaningless as it will have no impact on Nepal,” said a beaming Pokharel.
“Our party has adopted the policy to halt the construction of the project under any circumstances”, he informed the participants at the interaction program.
“The Indian company will be allowed to continue construction only after State restructuring accomplished and with the drafting of Federal Policy on Exploitation of Natural Resources…the Central and the local governments will have to accept the project primarily,” he continued.
“We cannot continue to be the Indian salves…better they withdraw their investment from the said project”, added Pokharel.
“Even if India threatens to impose economic blockade we will not cry foul”, he said adding, “we have the knowledge that Nepal’s misery is India linked”.
“We are also in favor of establishing Visa regime between the two countries, our border with India must be regulated properly”.
“We ask India to withdraw all its investments-in all sectors in Nepal because that will allow all the Nepali citizens to become self reliant in due course of time”, Lila Mani also said.
Speaking at the interaction a Maoists’ Constitute Assembly member Mr. Gopal Kirati said that his party was also not in favor of allowing the construction works of Arun-III, Seti and Upper Karnali Projects.
“The then Girija Prasad Koirala government, December 30, 2007, kept our swearing in ceremony on hold for a day---the conspiracy was to sell Arun-III and Upper Karnali to India at a dirt cheap price”, revealed Kirati.
“It was only after Girija sold the projects to India, the swearing in ceremony took place the next day”, he also informed.
The Dristi vernacular Weekly had reported then that the Koirala cabinet had made a hasty decision to award this contract to the Indian company as pressurized by the then visiting India’s Intelligence agency (RAW) Chief, Ashok Chaturvedi.
Dharmendra Bastola, another Maoists’ leader informed that the party has already asked GMR-Energy Consortium to halt the construction works.
Other speakers, foreign relations expert Hiranya Lal Shresth and Border Expert Chetendra Jung Himali were of the opinion that the Indian threat to withdraw construction exhibited the weakness of Indian diplomacy.
Comments (9)
Nepalo people needs power
not ur rehtoric Mr Pokheral
Dear Lila Mani is going to conquer India and Bangladesh to give us access to the Indian ocean trade route.
Looking at the story of the economic downturn in US a few years back and the role of corporate in it, makes me conclude that not all the work of corporate are good. I think Upper Karnali falls on this category.
However, the idea of VISA system is not what i like. I beleive, today connection is the most important asset, just like the internet and the TV but even more better.
If Girija sold these projects and consipred against your party, why is your Chairman still shaking hands wih him and why is your party asking him to be a PM again ? Why did you not expose Girija when your party was in power ?
Great , at least there are plenty of Nepalese who still love to live with head high. India should learn a lesson from Nepal it can no longer behave as big brother in Asia. All treaty should be cancelled .
How stupid these people can be. All the world is opening the border with their neighbors, they are proposing to close the border. Stopping construction of hydropower, while contry is reeling under the lack of electricity with more than 12 hours of load shedding. Of course this bastards, thieves, blood suckers are not going to suffer from it. They can go to india, when ever they want using tax payers money, they have 24 hours electricity, water and enough oil in their cars. General Nepalese are going to suffer from it. But why should they think about it? If people will suffer, they will rule on them. People will die of hunger, poverty, they will enjoy it. It is more than enough to listen to these bastards. We all Nepalese must punish them now. It's time to wipe them out form the history of Nepal and let other be aware of not to repeat the mistake these ...., RO... has done.
They are basically trying to stop all the development work in the coutry, because their stupid party has decided this. Who these people are to decide for the Nepalese people?
At the moment we all nepalese are becoming slave of few communists mided terrorists. If we won't wake up now, we will be in a grave dnager of our freedom and identity.
God bless People of Nepal, but not these few ....
Non sense adovacy of communist goons. They are destroying the country one after another .HOw much we innocent citizens are going to tolarate these communist goon.I HAVE NO ANSWER. I think it is right time to wipe out communists from Nepal. This is the only solution FOR permanent peace..
If some body wants VISA from india , they free to obtain visa from indian embessy .. WHy you dirty goons trying to give more trouble to innocent citizens . i DONOT WANT visa system in Nepal. The open border system has benefited million of citizens .. If Lila mani wants VISA , he is free to approach to indian embessy . WHy he is worrying of other citizens... COmmunists are chors, daka...traitors of mother Nepal..
God save nepal from theSE goons..
nepali ko bani change...kailey china kailey india range.
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I like Mr. Rokha's insightfull thinking. He likes connection. What a great idea! He likes to connect the connection with Tin can and piece of twig. Wow! We are connected. If he is thinking connection in that manner, we just need discarded can and twigs. Rokha does not understand all the connection in twenty first century is connected with power that called "ELECTRICITY".