Nepal foreign minister Gyawali to visit India mid-January amid crisis at home
P.K. Gyawali will be accompanied by a high-powered delegation, and is set to discuss all issues of bilateral importance , including the Kalapani-Lipulekh border dispute.
Nayanima Basu 1 January, 2021 8:51 am IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: Amid the growing political and constitutional crisis in Kathmandu, Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali is all set to visit New Delhi in mid-January to hold the India-Nepal joint commission meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, ThePrint has learnt.
Gyawali will be accompanied by a high-powered delegation, and will discuss “all issues of bilateral importance”, which includes the contentious Kalapani-Lipulekh border issue, official sources told ThePrint.
4360 DESPERATION: Earlier this year, PM Oli raised an ultra-nationalist bogey by laying claim to Indian territory via cartographic adventurism. Reuters
Manjeev Singh Puri
Former Ambassador of India to Nepal
NEPAL’S politicians are busybodies and even Covid-19 hasn’t been able to keep them under lockdown. On December 20, Parliament was hastily dissolved by the President on the advice of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and his Cabinet, even though the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) had a near two-thirds majority and there were at least two more years to go before its five-year term ended. Fresh elections in May are being mentioned, but doubters believe that the dissolution is only a ploy by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to stave off serious challenges to his leadership within the NCP and somehow remain in power.
Nepal: PM KP Sharma Oli recommends dissolution of Parliament; his party opposes move
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
In a surprise move, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday recommended dissolution of the Parliament. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the Cabinet on Sunday morning. Today s Cabinet decided to recommend to President to dissolve the Parliament Energy Miniter Barsaman Pun said.
The move surprised the ruling Nepal Communist Party which said the decision is against the democratic norms. The decision has been made in haste as all the ministers werenât present in the cabinet meeting this morning. This is against the democratic norms & would take the nation backwards. It canât be implemented, Narayankaji Shrestha, spokesperson of Nepal Communist Party, said.
India-Nepal dissonance could not come at worse time; New Delhi must seize opportunity to mend fences To assume that the current communist government of Nepal is intrinsically wed to the Chinese CCP, is puerile fallacy Bhopinder Singh December 14, 2020 12:34:34 IST File image of Narendra Modi and KP Oli. Twitter @narendramodi
The curse of the debilitating COVID-19 pandemic and the scorching summer notwithstanding, the India-Nepal relationship has been burnt with each party accusing the other of unjustified cartographic assertion . The breakdown was in the making for some time and the inauguration of the link road from Dharchula to Lipulekh (above Kalapani Valley) by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made the Nepalese immediately dig out the 1816 Sugauli Treaty, to register protest.
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