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Who Said what At The Federal House?
Who Said what At The Federal House?
Siddhi B Ranjitkar
May 16, 2018
Concerning the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali officially briefed the lawmakers at the Federal House of Representatives on Monday, May 14, 2018, and said that what Chief Minister Lalbabu Raut had said was against the diplomatic norms, and the political culture.
Speaking at the civic reception presented to Modi in Janakpur on May 11, Raut had said that the Nepalese constituent had been discriminatory.
Foreign Minister Gyawali said that the Nepalese security personnel had taken care of the security of Modi; some personal security guards had come with Modi following the bilateral agreement.
Nobody watching the TV or the film footage of the Modi’s two-day-Nepal visit on the social media would believe what Gyawali said to the lawmakers. Probably, lawmakers must have watched the footage. Foreign Minister Gyawali must have totally lied to the lawmakers or he did not have time to watch the TV or the footage on the social media or he did not know the Indian security had been everywhere; the rest of the world knew who had provided Modi with the security while he was in Nepal.
If Gyawali were unaware of who had been providing the security to Modi, then Prime Minister Oli must have totally bypassed him, as Oli did to Energy Minister Barshaman Pun while Oli and Modi jointly officially initiated the Arun-3 Hydropower Project at the city Hall not even inviting Pun to the event.
Telling lies have been the regular practices of politicians; however, saying, “Nepalese personnel had provided Modi with security” was the absolutely shameless lie the responsible Foreign Minister Gyawali could tell the lawmakers if he were deliberately telling a lie to the lawmakers.
CPN-Maoist-Center Lawmaker Pampha Bhusal said that the entry of the Indian security personnel during the Modi’s Nepal visit was utterly serious matter and disgraceful.
Gyawali also told the lawmakers that the foreign ministries of both countries in coordination with each other set the date of the Modi’s Nepal visit. However, Lawmaker Pampha Bhusal said that India had unilaterally set the date for the visit of Modi; it was absolutely the diplomatic shortcomings. Lawmaker Bhusal demanded to endorse the Arun-3 by the two-third majority at the House before starting the construction of the project.
NC Lawmaker Gagan Thapa said that the government taking down the banner protesting the Indian sanctions on Nepal the Bibeksil party had put up, had grossly violated the rights to the freedom of expression the Constitution has guaranteed. (News source: “gorkhapatra” of May 15, 2018)
Lawmakers have been concerned with the Indian security personnel bypassing the Nepalese personnel in Nepal during the Modi’s Nepal visit, keeping the Nepalese journalists out of the civic reception held in honor of Modi at the City Hall while Indian reporters covered everything, absence of the energy minister in the initiation of the Arun-3 Hydropower project held at the City Hall, Indian lawmaker Kirti Azad’s tweet demanding the ‘return’ of Janakpur to India, and Province 2 Chief Minister Lalbabu Raut’s saying the constituent is discriminatory at the civic reception in Janakpur, and permitting Indian reporters in the traditionally prohibited areas such as Muktinath (Mustang).
CPN-UML Vice-chairman and lawmaker Bhim Rawal spoke against the tweet the Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Kirti Azad had tweeted urging Modi to ‘merge’ Janakpur into India. Rawal demanded an apology from the tweeter, and the correction of the tweet. So far, no answer has been received from Modi or his government, and his party through the diplomatic channel or through the media.
Mr. Kirti Azad must have been absolutely ignorant of the size of Nepal before the Sugauli treaty between Nepal and the British Indian government done in 1816 after the protracted war between Nepal and the British East India Company from 1814 to 1816. Mr. Azad needed to understand that Nepal would not only keep Janakpur but also demand the Nepalese territory the British East India Company annexed after the war.
