Brigadier General Prem Singh Basnyet (retired) has asked Indian chief of Army Staff Manoj Mukunda Narvane for not undermining Nepal.
Gen. Narvane on 15 May, at a programme at the Institute of Defence Studies, had remarked that Nepal, at the behest of someone else, has raised the border issue. Narvane was indicating towards China for provoking Nepal to laude on Kalapani border issue with India.
Gen Basnyet, at the AP News television, said that the entire Lipulekh, Limpiyuadhara, Kalapani area belongs to Nepal.
India has occupied the territory by constructing a fake river, which is against the Sugauli Treaty in 1816.
Mahakali River belongs to Nepal, so far, the then government committed a blunder while inking Mahakali Treaty, Basnyet said.
Citing on the historical fact, Basnyet said that Nepal had reached upto Tista River in the east and near Kashmir in the west.
Basnyet has recalled that Nepal had never remained under colonial rule of any other country, no foreign power could contain Nepal in any war.
Nepal is the country having the history of four thousand years, fought two glorious wars with British rulers in India and one war with China, he said.
461 year old Nepal Army never celebrates independence day as Nepal was independent forever, Basnyet said.
Basnyet, a researcher and historian, blamed the Indian rulers for sponsoring Nepali political leaders either it was in the 1950 movement or in 1989 or in 2006 and providing armed training, shelter and arms to the Nepali Maoists launching armed insurgency in Nepal.
He said, border encroachment by India is unfair.
“When my king was there, you could do nothing”, Basnyet said and added, now, in the absence of the King, Indians have encroached Nepali territory.
“We are not puppet of India or China,” the retired general remarked.
“We are small army but we have big courage to protect our motherland,” he said.
Don’t provoke and don’t humiliate Nepali sentiment, Basnyet warned and asked the Indian army chief to take back his words.
Basnyet, however, suggested India to constitute a joint committee of retired generals and border experts from both the countries to end border disputes between the two countries.
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People’s News Monitoring Service
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