RPP Chairman Kamal Thapa has called the planned civic felicitation of Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi during his Nepal visit abnormal and unnecessary.
Posting in social networking site Facebok, Thapa has said civic felicitation of Modi during his Nepal visit is abnormal and unnecessary when he has not welcomed Nepal’s constitution and not even felt remorse for imposing economic blockade on Nepal.
He has questioned how PM KP Sharma Oli, who has first-hand experience of blockade and Indian behavior about constitution, will justify the civic felicitation of Modi.
He has stated that the planned civic felicitation of Modi in Janakpur is piercing his mind and heart alike. “Civic felicitation of Narendra Modi is abnormal and unnecessary when he has not welcomed Nepal’s constitution promulgated by representatives elected by the people despite many weaknesses, and not even felt remorse for the economic blockade he imposed on Nepal,” Thapa has written.
He has also claimed that there is no clarity about significance and relevance of Modi’s two day visit starting on May 11. “To say that a high-profile and international level leader like Narendra Modi is arriving just to press the remote control button in Kathmandu to start construction of Arun III Hydropower Project is belittling the visit,” Thapa has posted.
He has reminded how India had spread negativity about the constitutional in the international forum at the time of blockade. “Sensational negative comments about Nepal’s constitution, state of human rights and Madhes movement by an Indian representative in a UN assembly in Geneva still reverberates in my ears,” he has posted.
“I have not forgotten the opinions intended to put pressure during my numerous India visits. It was very difficult to refute the continuous propaganda by the Indian side in Washington to Britain and Brussels claiming that the constitution is incomplete, exclusive and not accepted by all,” Thapa, who was deputy prime minister and foreign minister at the time of Indian blockade has, reminisced.
