Don?t forget Nepal



As news started pouring in from Dhaka, one thing that would be remembered for long time would be the Nepalese bargain on providing observer status to China to the Indian proposal of welcoming Afghanistan in the SAARC as its eighth member.

Whereas, Nepalese politician s back home alleged this move, which is probably a first ever diplomatic-shift in decades and decades, that Nepal has exhibited recently as a playing of a China card by H.M the King.

Toeing the same line, Awami League, a major opposition party in Bangladesh alleged that lack of visionary, initiative and proactive role on the part of the government has made the just concluded SAARC summit a mere formality. Perhaps this is the India card , so cheap that opposition parties in the region use so frequently for a mere political survival. This also proves to our discussion last week that India supports a weaker force in the internal politics of a neighboring country to de-stabilize it further.

Moreover, the 13 th SARRC summit will be remembered for a long time to come as a display of support that China possesses in this region. This summit is also a proof that no country except Bhutan in the region is willing to accept India as a regional power. Be it known to India.

Disdaining the efforts put together by the Nepalese government in Dhaka supreme leaders of both the Nepali Congress and the UML left for New-Delhi pilgrimage yet again to meet the Maoists leaders who are sponsoring an armed revolt back home but enjoying pleasant Indian government hospitality there, thus confirming Indian government?s historical double standard of seeing a prosperous and stable neighbor. An international observer in his recent write up claims that India?s affirmations on regional issues in the International Forums are merely for confusing the International community regarding their relationship with the neighbors. Well said!

Analyzing the use of India card by leaders from UML, the leaders who are known for their mistrust and lie, which is also a reason that the Maoists cashed in so easily with the ignorant rural population, as words given by the UML were not delivered, the cadres turned towards the Maoists. The Maoists more so were seen more vocal against India in their initial days but later only to remove majority of their demands concerning India for understandable political reasons. This is perhaps a classical use of India Card in the Nepali politics by the UML and the Maoists respectively. The use of India card by the Nepali Congress, the party which is considerably closer to India than the UML and now the Maoists is left in this column for our readers to make their own analysis.

To the recent visit by the UML leader, once again putting cadres, supporters and the countrymen all guessing, performing yet another spectacle within a week left for Delhi for the second time, his visit this time was claimed for a health checkup a la Girija Baboo?s periodic health check up in Delhi. Madhav Nepal now carries a heart disease which in his own words can be remedied only in New-Delhi, which has no solution back home. Lying continues non-diminu? in Nepali politics as Indian newspapers giving reference to a government employees' claims that a meeting was held in a government?s guest house between the leaders of Maoists, Nepali Congress and UML in presence of various high-positioned Indian Government officials. Thus visit to New Delhi is understandable to our readers as the political wrangling continue to grow more Nepali leaders will carry a heart disease. Whereas a major question is who is going to find a remedy for the people, who are continuously carrying diseases of different sorts since centuries? Neither a Chinese pill nor an Indian one has been able to cure this disease of hunger, inequality, suppression, repression and what not.