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Is UN carrying Indian agenda?
Niraj Aryal
It is accepted by all that luring and threatening (carrot and stick policy in terms of politics) the leaders from both sides of the conflict while managing a way out of the deadlock is a difficult task. And amazing is the Nepali conflict, where this time as well, nothing had virtually changed after people’s protest for fifteen consecutive days all over the country.
But the universal truth is that whenever there is an impasse there is also a way forward. But the remaining four days of the nineteen-day long impasse was enough to unlock the Nepali crisis.
Without much guessing national and international onlookers were certain that India’s political intervention was needed to bring the torrid situation to a much needed halt. This is the key that India possesses, that she uses every now and then to unlock the Nepali deadlocks. With that all different faces in the country were revealing the same old story. First of, a sense of happiness because the situation will cool down considerably, and also disgraceful because they knew that the solution to the Nepali problem lies somewhere out side the country, and finally confused because the ultimate political moves played at that moment were completely beyond their grasp.
To this much needed Indian intervention a few matured analysts maintain that the game was being played since long time back and it is India alone which can unlock this Nepali deadlock for it was a seed sown by none less than India herself long time back for a multitude of political hidden agenda.
More than that, it is India’s so called high stakes in Nepal that is giving them extra boost to intervene and object to the very sovereignty of the nation.
The recent Indian avowals reveal that India is now more concerned over the issue of growing threat from hypothetic ISI (Pakistan Intelligence Agency) operating from Nepal especially after the government’s decision to declare the only Hindu Kingdom a secular state. In addition, India is also concerned over the issue of growing militarization of the Himalayan Kingdom. In effect wanted Nepal to remain a land without an army or whatsoever.
“The agenda that India possesses now is to take over the security situation in Nepal and to object merging the People’s Army into the Nepali National Army”, said Professor of International repute in an interaction program held outside Kathmandu.
Add to this, to the utter surprise of analysts in Nepal is the ambiguous position of the US and the UN in the Nepali situation. In the one hand their position might look surprising but on the other it is well known that the US, which is very far from Nepal and obviously shares lesser interest than Iraq or Afghanistan in Nepal prefers to toe the Indian line and the UN which survives on American doles and grants is also carrying an Indian agenda. So there is no surprise.
The UN special envoy, Samuel Tamrat after receiving Indian sermon as landed in Kathmandu for the second time in a week, out of bolt from the blue suggested the government must "downsize the Nepali Army".
What is the correlation in between a solution to the conflict and the downsizing of the army? What benefits the UN will have from such a downsizing?
This shows that the United Nations which has yet to prove its competence and perfect neutrality in forging compromises over conflicting sides in the world wants to setup an example in Nepal through its involvement at any cost. But whose words the UN has been speaking or pushing for Nepali consumption?
Add to this, there is no Indian government’s official text as yet welcoming Nepal’s recent developments or showing concern over the fictitious ISI threat or a concern over the militarization of Nepal. This in itself is surprising because in the past India quite ignorantly was making statements after statements, contradicting one after another, but now keeping mum over Nepal’s development is astounding. But India has found a new ally in the UN in Nepal which is at least carrying a few of its demands in Nepal. So India’s stoic silence is also justified. The point that India which was initially concerned over the issue of UN mediation in Nepal is now more concerned over the future formation of the Nepali National Army.
Nothing to panic. To the utter dismay of the Indian authorities, a time will come soon when the two armies will come together, albeit the process is long and arduous one, and add to the strength of the Nepali army in combination with the Red militia of the Maoists. After all, both come from the same soil. Surely if that does happen will be another headache for India, I presume.
Thus UN carrying Indian agenda in Nepal is not a surprise for those academicians who understand the whims of the UN officials that they exhibit more often than not.
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