Amjed Jaaved
India is a democracy. But, it is now employing even its intelligence chief to warp recalcitrant governments. India’s external affairs ministry conducts diplomatic missions to foreign countries. But, Modi deputed RAW chief to visit Nepal officially. Shortly after India’s premier intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing chief’s visit to Nepal, conspiracies to topple Nepal’s prime minister (KP Sharma Oli) blossomed into full swing. Out of courtesy, Oli did not unfurl Nepal’s new map before him. However, he did not heed RAW chief; Samant Kumar Goel’s muffled threats, couched as give-and-take either.
The RAW chief reminded Oli that Nepal’s economy can’t survive without financial injections from India. He told him that the pension bill for 1, 27.000 pensioners (90,000 defence, 77,000 para-military, and the rest civil) is about Indian Rs. 4,600 crore (Nepali Rs. 3601.81 crore). The pensions alone larger tan Nepal’s annual defence budget.