A design aimed at disintegrating Nepal

N.Aryal

While Deuba’s royal trip to Delhi along with a contingent of 72 brain less heads including the junior Deuba was in progress, reports that appeared in various Indian newspapers about the Indian stance regarding the Maoists issue in Nepal was very surprising.

The change in Indian stance was indeed a puzzling one. Was it?

Instead of giving credit to Deuba, better would be to dwell into the facts that what was the cost of 1800 shift in the Indian policy, that Nepal ultimately had to pay?

n Deuba did not mention incidents like Mahali Sagar, could be one of them.

n The other one is of course the visit of State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Prakash Saran Mahat to the UN headquarters for its general assembly without agenda as usual. Surprise surprise! This time Nepal will be supporting India, which is contesting for permanent membership for the Security Council along with Germany, Japan, Brazil and South Africa. Pakistan on the other hand will do every thing possible to oppose India, said a top Pakistani diplomat in New York.

The reports that appeared in Indian newspapers indicated that the India government has requested Deuba not to consider third party mediation and that it was doing everything within its capacity to come down heavily on extreme left wing groups operating from India.

The reports said that to the Nepali situation the Indians were particularly concerned about:

n Frequent visits made by Sir. Jeffery James, a UK special envoy to Nepal;

n Recent visits made by various UN officials in Kathmandu, For ex: Samuel Tamrat and Kul Chandra Gautam;

n Supply of military ammunition and hardware to Nepal by the US and others, ignoring India;

n China’s highly subsidized projects especially in the Terai. Oops Terai! Untouchable it is, Beware China! "Nepali Terai, exclusive Indian prerogatives". Mind it that, India has devised a special policy for the Nepali Terai. A design aimed at disintegrating Nepal, it appears.

A few months back Ex-Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Shyam Saran had publicly told a gathering in Terai that India would be devising special policies that would develop Nepal's terai plains.

How Nepal reacts to this Indian special policy towards terai will have to be watched?

Whatever be the Indian central government posture on Maoists issue in Nepal, some influential Indian leaders in states bordering Nepal still have soft corners to the Maoists. In this context, how the central government in India will convince those leaders is also a big question.

The issue of proposed "red corridor" going from Nepal to the southern state of Andhra Pradesh by the left wing groups in India is also troubling her.

The Chief Ministers’ of Maoists -Naxalites affected provinces recently met in Hyadarabad, wherein they concluded that such insurgencies should be dealt with heavy hands whatever their origin.

Overall, India now considers Maoists issue in Nepal very seriously and in parallel does not want its traditional subservient nation to slip away from its hand.

The third party mediation in Nepal could have a devastating impact on India, which is the home to countless insurgencies of the sort of Maoists in Nepal who could also toe the Nepal’s Maoist line.

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