After Nepal released the map, India reacted harshly, calling it a “unilateral action”.
Kathmandu:
Former Nepalese prime minister KP Sharma Oli announced that he was sacked last year after his government published a new map of Nepal that included Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh as its territories.
Lipulekh Pass is a point to the west near Kalapani, a disputed border area between Nepal and India. Both India and Nepal claim Kalapani as part of their territory – India is part of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand and Nepal is part of Dharchula district.
Speaking on the occasion of the release of a book titled ‘Chakravyuha Ma Nepal Ko Jalashrot’ (The Conspiracy Around Nepal’s Watercourses), KP Sharma Oli said: “There cannot be any dispute that the territories include Kalapani belongs to Nepal because the Sugauli Treaty signed between Nepal and the East India Company explicitly mentions that the territories west of the Mahakali River belong to Nepal.” “But these territories were excluded from Nepal and I I am well aware that I will be cut off from power after these territories are taken over to the Nepalese side,” said KP Sharma Oli, Chairman of the main opposition party CPN-UML.
KP Sharma Oli, former Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chanda and former Water Resources Minister Pashupati Shumsher Rana jointly released the book by former Water Resources Minister Dwarika Nath Dhungel during a working session in Kathmandu on Monday. .
Former Nepalese ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyaya said that the versatile use of Nepal’s water resources will be the basis of economic prosperity. He wondered why India and Nepal could not share water resources on the basis of international agreements.
India’s bilateral relations with Nepal came under strain under Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli after India opened a strategically important 80 km road linking Lipulekh pass with Dharchula in Uttarakhand on 8 May 2020.
Nepal opposes the opening of the road claiming it passes through its territory. A few days later, Nepal released a new map showing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as its territory. India has reacted harshly to this move.
In June last year, Nepal’s Parliament approved a new political map of the country with areas belonging to India.
After Nepal released the map, India reacted harshly, calling it a “unilateral action” and warning Kathmandu that such “artificial expansion” of territorial claims would be unacceptable. for this country.
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