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Pullout Of Rakesh Sood From Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 23, 2010: supporting the media report of the Government of India is pulling Ambassador Rakesh Sood out of Nepal, the IANS has reported that India's Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood is getting promotion to the India’s deputy national security adviser. Most likely, special secretary to the external affairs ministry and a former envoy to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad is succeeding Sood in Kathmandu.
Ambassador Sood has been highly controversial diplomat in Nepal. He has tricked Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala to cancel the international biddings for printing machine-readable passports (MRPs) and then to award the contract for the same to the state-run Indian printing company. After the public pressure, the Government of Nepal has cancelled the contract with the Indian company causing considerable delay in issuing MRPs.
The International Civil Aviation Organization has set the deadline for April 1, 2010 for the developing countries to issue MRPs but Nepal is going to issue MRPs on December 26, 2010 thus delaying almost for eight months.
In addition, Ambassador Sood has been the target of the Maoists. He has faced the wrath of the Maoists for interfering in the internal matters of Nepal including the case of MRPs going against his diplomatic status. The Maoists have shown their anger at Ambassador Sood displaying black flags whenever he has been in public in remote areas.
