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Indian Foreign Secretary Flies Back
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 20, 2011: completing her three-day (18-20 Jan) visit to Nepal, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has flown back to Delhi with the load of information collected from the political leaders. She has met all the political leaders of significance, and has sounded them to see how India can help them to break the current political deadlock.
Foreign Secretary Rao has met with outgoing Prime Minister Madhav Nepal, President Ram Baran Yadav to have their political views on how India can help Nepal to come out of the current political mess. Actually, India has sent her to Nepal to diagnose the political diseases inflicted Nepalese leaders, and to ascertain their mood after the UNMIN has left Nepal on January 16, 2011.
NC and CPN-UML leaders have pretended that they can work on the consensus politics while talking to the Indian Foreign Secretary but how far she has believed them is not known. She has received the same old message of reviewing the unequal treaties Nepal has with India from the chairman of UCPN-Maoist.
Foreign Secretary Rao has a technical meeting with her Nepalese counterpart and has exchanged views of how to expedite the implementation of the India-aided projects. They are going to meet again in Bhutan at the time of the SARRC foreign secretaries meeting. Outgoing Prime Minister Madhav Nepal has complained to Indian Secretary Rao that India has not taken up the promises made by the Indian authorities at the time of his state visit to India.
Whether Indian Foreign Secretary Rao has been able to influence the Nepalese political leaders to work on the consensus politics that has been impossible during the last two years remains to be seen by the future activities of the leaders.
Recently, Nepalese politicians have felt the excessive non-solicited activities of Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood that has been unpopular among the political cadres particularly the cadres of UCPN-Maoist. India has already decided to call back Sood to cool the heated relations between the two countries.
