INDIA’S “NEW” FOREIGN POLICY

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On his first visit to India as PM, one thing is quite clear from Prachanda’s statements. Nepal is unwilling to continue with the age-old status quo & has also brought a number of expectations to the table. While those may be judged on their individual merits, Ranjit Bhushan of B&E elaborates why India should now indeed change its traditional stance towards Nepal

For the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, the current time is unlike anything it has ever seen in the past; especially as they have rid themselves of a 240-year-old monarchy only this year in May, to become a multi-party democracy. And coincidentally so, the new Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kumar Dahal, aka Prachanda is also unlike any of his predecessors. For starters, he is Maoist who has won a national election and a revolutionary gun-trotting Leftist used to spending life under a series of assumed names (ever since he led the civil war in Nepal since 1996), who has now been pitch forked as the lynchpin of the establishment in Kathmandu. Moreover, he has represented the poor and downtrodden in a true sense, even though the war he began took the lives of thousands.

And Prachanda is also unusual in the way that he is also the first Prime Minister of Nepal who is demanding revisions of some of the landmark agreements reached with India since 1950. If what he has set out to get materialises, it would signal a comprehensive change in the direction of Nepal’s India policy and conduct of its foreign relations.

In the light and sound of Prachanda’s two-day visit, one thing did appear certain though: he is seeking to introduce basic structural changes in the basic relationship between Nepal and India. He told the Indo-Nepal Peoples’ Solidarity Forum at the Nepalese embassy that all treaties with India since 1950 would be reviewed. “We are trying to review each and every treaty with India since 1950. We will propose changes in policies connected to water sharing, recruitment of Gorkhas in the Indian army and smuggling on the Indo-Nepal border,” he said plainly and openly for anyone who cared to pay attention.


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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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