National/Regional Affairs
By N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal)
Kathmandu: Former UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal was humiliated in his own home constituency, Rautahat, by voters by shouting slogans like, we put it straight, “Madhav Nepal is Chor Hai” (Madhab Nepal is a thief).
Now it is the turn of Prachanda, JN Khanal, SB. Deuba, KP Oli and the like to be insulted. Just wait, the process has, better late than never, begun in earnest. People say the Indian bend leaders’ days in Nepal are numbered.
Madhav Nepal had gone to his home town Rauthat to cast his vote at the just concluded local level elections.
So what made or forced Madhav Kumar Nepal, former prime minister, to flee from the election booth to save his life or for that matter from being insulted grandly?
Here we have collected some valid reasons that have distanced him from his own voters in his home constituency.
As highly placed sources say, he is the most arrogant, selfish and a man who prefers to pull the legs of his own friends if his acts of leg-pulling benefit him. His excessive India bends too is not a secret. Madhav is taken as the one former United Marxists-Leninists leader who captured for a decade and a half the General Secretaryship of the UML after the “mysterious” death of his own party leader Madan Bhandari. Late Bhandari was the husband of the sitting Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari.
Madhav kept himself glued to the GS post without conducting the needed annual party conventions which are demanded by the Party’s rules and regulations. The cruelest allegation on Madhav is that he is a “declared India hand and prefers to work for India only”.
That he could be an Indian asset gets reflected in the fact that even if he lost the parliamentary elections sometime in the past, yet, he was elevated to the rank of the prime minister through the kind courtesy of the Indian establishment. It was direct Indian intervention indeed.
That he is an India hand or an India bend political figure got reflected in the early 1990s when Madhav at his party’s special meet chaired by late Madan Bhandari “proposed” that the Indian military be invited to take sitting Nepal King Birendra to the task or even if need be to “arrest” the sitting monarch. In plain words, Madhav proposed to bring in the Indian military to arrest King Birendra.
It was a time when the Indian regime through its Nepali paid and posted agents had initiated a political movement to cut down the size of the ruling monarch. Needless to say, every political movement or say turmoil in Nepal so far to my knowledge has remained without fail as per the design, fund, and mechanisms of the Indian establishment.
Just for the consumption of the outside world, India uses and overuses Nepal’s “domestic” political and “sold out” leaders and media men to give the impression that the agitation in Nepal was a “homegrown” affair.
I even suspect the unceremonious ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pakistan last month (April) and the “dangerous” demonstrations that destabilized not only the friendly nation Sri Lanka but also forced the sitting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to prefer a “grand escapade” to save his and family-men lives. After Pakistan, turmoil in Sri Lanka. Is it a mere coincidence? Keep on guessing.
Imran Khan claims that he was ousted under a special design crafted by the US, but observers see the Indian hand in his ouster from the Chair of the Prime Minister. India needs a prime minister in Pakistan like Nawaz Sharif and the likes. To recall, before Imran Khan became the Pakistan PM, Indian PM Modi also taken as the South Asian menace, dropped suddenly in Pakistan to wish PM Sharif for his birthday celebrations and that too without meeting the required and the needed “diplomatic” formalities as per the universal conventions.
Some even say that PM Khan was ousted by a section of the “media” in Pakistan which has the blessings and the “funding” from the Indian spy agency RAW.
Strong rumors have it that India has already made deep penetration into the body politic of the Pakistani state through its infiltration into Pakistan’s so-called “vibrant” media.
To recall, in recent times even the “all-powerful” Pakistani military too signaled that some “political animals” were suspected of being “excessively” close to some “alien” agency and pocketing “financial assistance” from alien countries. Which country? Obviously from India.
In general, talking of South Asia, the alien agency is the RAW which has the “expertise” in fomenting troubles in the neighborhood including Pakistan.
Nepal better understands what RAW and India are for Nepal as we have witnessed India’s ugly and dirty interventions at regular intervals.
What is most surprising of it all is that Pakistan, declared rival of India since the very next day of the partition and its “die-hard” nationalist population (specifically the media) have come under the influence of the RAW. This is weakening Pakistan clearly. This means that Pakistan no longer remains an independent nation but instead becomes a country like Nepal and Bhutan. Indian proxies operating in Pakistan? Yes. Hundred percent.
The leaders of these countries, we have been told, feel excited in greeting the regional thugs from Delhi in their respective countries.
More so, when the media becomes corrupt and behaves like a stooge of India or for that matter the leaders of a particular country exhibit their “loyalty” to a neighboring country then what must be understood is that the “sovereignty and the integrity” of the nation are soon going to evaporate in the ethereal medium sooner than later.
Spontaneous Sri Lankan economic crisis or?
In recent years, with the abject failure of India’s “neighborhood” first policy in South Asia, China smoothly entered into those countries which were in many more ways than one “under deep Indian influence”.
Countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and to some extent Sri Lanka greeted China’s entrance with pleasure and thereby allowed Beijing to increase its influence in these countries.
Talking of Sri Lanka, India was very much against the Chinese presence in Colombo through the Hambantota port for India thought that such a Chinese presence was a potential security threat to it and the entire region.
The threat was felt too by the advanced countries of the globe under the command of the US plus the strategic QUAD conglomerate.
India was upset with Mahinda Rajpaksha who while being the President of the island nation had wiped out the entire terror machinery structure of the Tamil separatists under India trained and funded LTTE led by ruthless Prabhakaran in the year 2009. India thinks of Sri Lankan Tamils as their own “citizens”.
President Mahinda then accomplished the task of wiping out the LTTE terror outfit with the “tacit” support of China and Pakistan both. Since 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa has been, let’s presume, the target of the Indian establishment.
Thus, those who have witnessed the so-called “political movement” of Nepal of the year 2005/6, could easily guess that the present “political turmoil” in Colombo that took a violent turn at times could have been the handiwork of the regional “destabiliser”.
However, the India designed movement in Nepal did not see the fleeing of the Monarch Gyanendra, but in the Sri Lankan case, Prime Minister Mahinda had to escape to save his life.
Though the inner details are yet to become public, we in Nepal guess that “India took revenge” from Mahinda for having cleansed Colombo from the LTTE outfit, a separatist structure created, trained, and funded by the Indian establishment beginning the days of Indira Gandhi and strengthened by Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv later died when a lady suicide bomber exploded herself together with Gandhi.
With the halt of the Civil War in Sri Lanka through the implied arms assistance of Beijing and Islamabad, Colombo was seen as tilted towards the countries which came as savior.
In the later years, Colombo exhibited its visible inclination towards these two countries which is what appears to have irritated India to the hilt and hence the current demonstrations against the Mahinda and President Gotabaya, the two brothers.
In the meanwhile, a Tweet from President Gotabaya on May 12, states in part, “the new government will be given the opportunity to present a new program & empowered to take the country forward”.
The Tweet adds, “Steps will be taken to amend the constitution to re-enact the contents of the 19th amendment to further empower the Parliament”.
This means President Gotabaya is already on the move to appease his irate denizens. A new government has already been formed under Ranil Wickramasinghe.
It remains yet to be seen how the new government checks the increasing presence of China in the Island nation.
Current demonstration apart, the China factor shall hang still on the heads of Colombo for a long time to come, it is presumed.
The Indian anger towards Colombo is first the cleansing of the Tamil minority and then Colombo’s visible proclivity towards Beijing, the declared bête noir of Delhi. The unseen hands of the US too can’t be ruled out.
All these events woven together bring us all to the “dark chamber manufacture” of the debt trap theory in India’s disinformation laboratory scattered all over the world, more so in Europe run by professional Indian destabilisers.
The debt trap theory was first coined by India and later copied by the entire European and the highly advanced US media which had a one-point agenda and that was to “tarnish the image” of emerging China globally.
Notably, these days the Indian unapologetic media trained by the BJP-RSS combine have begun disseminating that after the fall of Pakistan and Sri Lanka, it is likely the turn of Nepal to be declared a failed country with the load of the Chinese debt trap to which it is not.
Sri Lanka’s current unrest is the mismanagement of the economy by the men in power in Colombo. The fact is that India as a strong partner of the US in the QUAD (Australia, Japan, the US and India itself) is obliged to abide by the instructions of the lone Super Power, the US which, say experts on international relations, wants to contain China through the use and overuse of India in South Asia and much beyond.
While the Nepali observers would wish China and the US to reconcile with each other for the larger benefit of the global good, however, they concurrently wish that China once again teaches a befitting “lesson” to India much the same way as had during the 1960 India-China war. India would have been reduced to pieces had there been no Gorkha Regiment in the Indian military service.
The hard reality is that India, contrary to the accepted principles, has been sending the Gorkhali troops (of Nepali descent) to the Chinese and the Pakistani war fronts.
The lame-duck and the India bend/submissive/Raw elevated Nepal government has no courage to even remind the Indian regime not to repeat such blunders.
What we have heard from highly placed sources is that at war fronts, the Pakistanis and the Chinese appear reluctant in firing shots at the Gorkha regiment personnel concluding that it would be an act of “killing men from friendly Nepal”.
This gives the impression that Nepal is already an Indian protectorate awaiting formal declaration from the Zee TV News anchor Sudhir Choudhary, one of India’s Godi media who had the distinction of being invited by Nepal under PM Oli.
The honey trap theory was perhaps coined by Sudhir, the dirty and the ugly Indian media man.
Now that Ranil Wickramasinghe is already the Island’s PM, India will watch how the new PM behaves and treats the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
To recall, India on occasions is on record to have “dictated” the terms on how to treat Nepal’s Tarai population who possess a close affinity with the population that resided in the adjoining Bihar and UP, India.
A word to China from Nepal:
China must stop playing double with Nepal and other countries in the South Asian region.
For Nepal, China is not even a reliable partner. Had it been so then China would have not allowed India to jointly trade through Lipulekh pass, a land that belongs entirely to Nepal.
China and India came together for this trading route close on the heels of a time when Nepal was hit by a mega-earthquake in 2015.
If China is serious then Beijing is advised to ease the economic crisis of the friendly nation Sri Lanka at the earliest.
The South Asian nations need China only to “balance and lessen” the increasing penetration and infiltration of Indian establishment in their internal as well as external affairs. That’s all.
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