| Emerging Trends in India-Nepal relations |
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| Written by S. Amit | |
| Sunday, 11 May 2008 | |
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The most powerful challenges are from within the party itself. The primary area to work on for maoist is to shift in their work culture. Electing maoist for leading this himalayan country may be just an alternative to failure of parties like Nepal Congress, Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum and Tarai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party. Over decades of time these political parties failed to work at grassroot level to enhance the lifestyle of ordinary Nepali people. Hence maoist must not take it as their win, but rather as a loss to others primary political party. This is same what we seen in India, when people elects a "kinnar" as their representative to the state assembly and or made them sweep ward elections. It do represents the loss of credibility among average voters for all leading parties/candidates of that constituent area . Nature of democracy necessarily makes votes to go somewhere - this time maoist had the basket. The Maoist leader, Prachanda, has been quick to try to reassure the public, political parties and the international community about his party's commitment to multi-party and peaceful politics. Social Layer:- Nepal has a long history of caste discrimination and ethnic division, and the constitutional assembly election is currently the country's greatest opportunity to start addressing these issues. During the conversation in the seminar, the Indian participants were impressed with the commitment each Nepali member had toward the nation they were representing. But more importantly as representative, they proved their ability to establish an environment of trust and openness regardless of our nationality, ethnic background or religion. Livelihood Challenges:- Nepal is unique in many respects, but the most challenging aspects for us are its incredibly diverse climate and geography. There are a total of 75 districts in Nepal. In an area of 125 by 500 miles, Nepal hosts not only some 59 ethnicities and 100 languages but five climatic zones ranging from tropical to arctic, as well as three geographic zones ranging from the Terai plains to the highest mountains in the world, the Himalayas (home of Mount Everest, or Sagarmatha, as the giant is known here). Most of the countryside is difficult to access. Five of our region's 16 districts have no roads, so it is not unusual to set off by car, continue with a tiny plane, and end with a one-hour to two-day trek, while temperatures fall from 100ºF to 50ºF. Having the most uneven geographic terrain, the country offers many challenges for , A large section of society spreads in far-flungs mounty ranges are often bereft of food and personal security. The Patna Conference Transcript :- Inaugurating a two-day seminar on "Emerging Trends in India-Nepal relations" jointly organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and the state government. It is being considered as India's first diplomatic initiative to engage with Nepal's new order. "We have no problem in sitting down together with them in a friendly and cooperative manner to come up with a new instrument that will more easily reflect the changed circumstances,'' said Prime Minister's special envoy Shyam Saran. However, there are already signs of trouble. Maoist Leader Prachanda already wants to scrap the 1950 friendship treaty between India and Nepal. South Block is seized with a new Nepal where history is in fast forward mode. It is now goodbye to his Royal Highness and time to shake hands with their Excellencies with the fisted Red Salute. A somewhat optimistic CM, Nitish Kumar said "co-operation in the field of water resources development would help create irrigation facilties, generate hydro-electricity and provide important navigation facilities to land-locked Nepal which shares a 700km porous border with Bihar. He was quite correct reiterated that construction of high-dams in the Himalayan nation would control recurring floods in Bihar caused by rivers emanating from Nepal and would also help Nepal in producing hydel power which could be used for improving agricultural productivity as well as industrial growth. Question Of Political Stability:- ''We, particularly the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), have been voted to majority because we say we need a new vision for Nepal. Therefore from that point of view, we would also like to have a new thought over and new review of past treaties,'' said Hisila Yami, CPN (Maoist) leader & Minister for Physical Planning & Works, Nepal. Such sort of statement do mirrors some sign of political instability. Vision is such sort of thing that get develops over period of time and need not to be imposed. Some recent development that is not a sign of a good democratic governace, happend in Nepal in past few weeks. 1.Trivuban International Airport (TIA) authority has barred Nepalnews reporters from entering the TIA premises when they were heading there to cover a news about the arrival of Nepali team returning back from Patna of the Indian state of Bihar after participating in a seminar on Nepal-India relation in the changed context.The incident took place even as Minister for Information and Communnication Krishna Bahadur Mahara promised to implement the Right to Information Act strictly. 2. The newly elected Independent candidate from Rautahat seat, Babban Singh accuses the Maoist govt. of giving order to Nepal police to kill him. At present he has taken shelter in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. 3. The relation of India to this himalayan nation has been oscillating since the political instability ingressed Nepal and the adour of election (or installation of democracy) has been dampened by the apprehension of how would the country be leaded if Maoist comes to power. Revision of the Nepal-India treaty of 1950, was the demand of communists ever since UML leader Man Mohan Adhikari became prime minister of minority government in 1993. Maoist chairman Prachanda should first concentrate to fulfill the demands of average Nepali citizen living in pitiful situation. *Author is a columnist in different magazines and expert in Internation political and economic issues. The article is written by S. Amit The columnist is writting articles for several magazines and publications.
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