Former Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli, ahead of Nepal’s national elections, asserted that he would reclaim the Himalayan nation’s territories claimed by India.
If elected, the former prime minister of Nepal, KP Oli, promised to regain the country’s borders.
K P Sharma Oli, a former prime minister of Nepal, declared on Friday that his party will retake the areas claimed by India if it won the parliamentary elections on November 20.
The Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) declared: “We will bring back land, including Kalapani, Lipulek, and Limpiyadhura” at the start of his party’s nationwide election campaign in the Darchula district in far-western Nepal close to the Nepal-India border. The 70-year-old Oli declared that his party was dedicated to protecting the country and added, “We will not spare even an inch of our territory.” Sher Bahadur Deuba, the leader of thef the Nepali Congress and the country’s prime minister, indicated that attempts were being made to.
If elected, the former prime minister of Nepal, KP Oli, promised to regain the country’s borders.
During the beginning of his election campaign, Deuba made these statements in his native Dadeldhura, in the extreme west of Nepal. Oli’s comments were followed by his.
Deuba stated during the election campaign that the problems with Kalapani, Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura, and other areas will be resolved by diplomatic efforts.
Former Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, on the other hand, has asked Oli not to make national integrity a campaign issue.
No party or individual should make the country’s territorial integrity an election issue, Bhattarai tweeted, without naming Oli.
The former prime minister also stated that only people inspired by fascism made nationalism a political agenda, citing former King Mahendra, who banned political parties by dismissing the elected government in 1960, and atrocities committed by Hitler.
Under then-Prime Minister Oli, India’s bilateral ties with Nepal were strained after India opened an 80-kilometer-long strategically important road connecting the Lipulekh pass with Dharchula in Uttarakhand on May 8, 2020.
Nepal objected to the road’s opening, claiming that it passed through its territory. A few days later, Nepal released a new map that included Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limpiyadhura as its territories. The move elicited a strong reaction in India.
In June of last year, Nepal’s Parliament approved a new political map of the country that included areas claimed by India. India reacted angrily after Nepal released the map, calling it a “unilateral act” and warning Kathmandu that such “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims will not be tolerated.
Oli, the leader of the main opposition party, also accused India of fabricating the Kali River’s origin.
He claimed that the Kalapani area in Byas Rural Municipality in the district was known to the world due to the ‘Chuchche Naksha’ (pointed map) of Nepal issued during his leadership. Nepal will hold elections for federal Parliament and provincial assemblies in a single phase on November 20, 2022.
