Standing committee member of ruling CPN Bhim Rawal has raised questions against claims of Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli that Ayodhya is not in India but is a village to the west of Birgunj.
Rawal, who has been a vehement critic of Oli inside the party, has slammed him for making such statements instead of focusing on border encroachment by India, inundation in the plains and withdrawal of Indian troops from Kalapani.
"Is this the time to raise the issues of border encroachment, inundation of villages in tarai and withdrawal of Indian troops from Kalapani and talk with India or to debate about Ayodhya? Why digress? What kind of system is this where discussion is not necessary in the party and government on the issue that has serious ramifications for the country," Rawal has tweeted on Tuesday.
PM Oli accused India of encroaching on cultural facts and claimed Ayodhya is not in India but is a village to the west of Birgunj on Monday.
Addressing a program organized at the PM's official residence in Baluwatar to mark the birth anniversary of the First Poet Bhanubhakta Acharya, Oli rued that Nepal has been oppressed culturally.
"We have been oppressed a bit culturally. Facts have been encroached. We still believe that we gave Sita to Indian Prince Ram. But we gave to the prince from Ayodhya not India. Ayodhya is a village a little west to Birgunj, not the Ayodhya created now," he elaborated.
He argued how can a prince from so far come to Janakpur for marriage if the Ayodhya claimed by India were real. He claimed that science and knowledge originated and developed in Nepal and rued that it could not be continued.
