Indian intervention in Nepal’s internal affairs wrong says Nepal; DPM Mainali hopeful India will lift blockade soon

Kathmandu / December 5: CPN (UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal on Saturday said an agreement affecting the unity among the ethnic communities and castes and impacting the national integrity could not be entertained with anyone.

At an interaction on ‘Current blockade and Nepal-India Relations’ organized by Political Science Association of Nepal in the capital city, leader Nepal said that the poison of ethnicity and regional sentiment sowed by some non-governmental organizations in the past were being reflected today creating the current problem. He added that the second Constituent Assembly elections had weakened the groups and parties advocating the sentiment of ethnicity.

“The undeclared blockade has reduced the import by 50 per cent and it has affected general livelihood in Nepal,” Nepal said adding, “It is our work to finalize Nepal’s internal problem and it is wrong that India should meddle in our internal affairs.”

The leader stressed that the state must not agree on giving right to self-determination on geographical terms demanded by the agitators and the ethnic rights.

On the occasion, lawmaker Lal Babu Prasad Yadav spoke of the cultural ties between Nepal and India and insisted on resolving the dampened relations through diplomatic means.

Society’s Chairman Bijaya Bahadur Silwal said the emerging situation in the aftermath of the undeclared blockade

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister CP Mainali has argued that India would be compelled to lift the border blockade imposed on Nepal soon.

Speaking at an interaction programme in Rupandehi today, DPM Mainali expressed his confidence on the same as various international communities and its own fellow countrymen were criticizing this very act and creating pressure to undo the embargo.

The act of imposing unofficial border blockade on its neighbor country had tarnished image of India in international arena, according to DPM Mainali.

Furthermore, Mainali shared that the government was doing necessary homework to expand Nepal’s trade with other foreign countries, which was solely dependent on India.

The DPM, also General-Secretary of CPN (ML), compared India imposed border blockade to a nation sharing its three sides’ border as an act of smothering. RSS