China’s Game to drive Wedge Between India and Nepal Must be Defeated
Pandit
Arjun Prasad Bastola, a Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, who is also on the Board of
Pashupatinath temple is a well-wisher of India. He once told me that relationship between India and Nepal is
like warp and woof from time immemorial and that cannot be separated. Two of the most sacred shrines,
Pashupatinath and Vaikunthdham are situated in Nepal, and every Hindu nurse desire
to visit those places. Nepal has its presence in almost all important religious
places of India. Nepali temple of Varanasi is one of the important religious/tourist
places in North India. Millions of Nepalese live in India and lakhs of Indians
live in Nepal. They have far and wide business interests. Thousands of Indians and
Nepalese have their relatives on both sides of the border. There is no language problem
of communication between the two countries. So much so, Hindi and Nepali both are
written in the same Devnagari script. Buddhism has more deep and pervasive effect in
Nepal than that of India, the place of its birth. Shri Bastola's observations are like eye-openers. During his
Delhi-visits he prefers to stay in Jain Dharamshala of Gole Market but then
that has nothing to do with what I wish to say here.
For the last few days, there has been a war of
words from the side of Nepal regarding a road that is being built by India for
strengthening the defence supply as well as to facilitating smooth passage for pilgrims
to Kailash Man Sarovar Yatra in Tibet. Nepal is doing it at the behest of China, which has become a hegemonistic superpower because of cheating, browbeating, bullying and
authoritarian policies. She has never fought any war against any country except,
of course, minor skirmishes here and there. She promised the end of all labour
laws, twenty-four uninterrupted water and electric supply and good roads to accord red carpet welcome to multinational companies. Later she stole their technologies
to gain upper hand over the countries from where these companies came to set up their
manufacturing units. This is all clear from the very revealing book ‘The
Hundred -Year Marathon’ of Michael Pillsbury. China has never been straight in its
diplomacy. Of late, she has been perturbed over the emergence of India as a global power
and its proximity with many countries particularly the USA. That is why she wants to needle India through her neighbours like Sri Lanka
and Nepal.
For the last nearly three decades China has been able to hypnotize Nepal through the Communist Party of Nepal, which is out to
destroy everything for which Nepal can rightfully boast of. China has set
up moles in the Nepalese administration, politics, and business by heavily bribing
some people. Bribery is the name of the game in which China has got no parallel in
the world. One of the Indian journalists has filed a case in the court with abundant
proofs that Chinese companies, like Alibaba, have been paying bribes to Indian
politicians, bureaucrats, media persons and even businesspersons to take roots
in India. Pakistan has always been against India and it gets emboldened due to brazen support of China.
India will do well to align with all countries
of the world to expose the chicanery and dangerous policies of China as it is
now well known that she was trying to exterminate the world through
biological weapons like Coronavirus. Luckily the world has seen through its game of deceiving the world through its puppet Director-General of WHO. India must scale up its diplomatic efforts
to soothe the feelings of Nepal, which has been ruffled because of the mischievous
needling of the Dragon.
My heart is filled with praise for the Senior Advocate Swaraj Kaushal for his 11 beautiful tweets addressed to famous
Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala. He has recounted the history of his
relationship with her grandfather and has addressed her as the daughter. Shri Kaushal
besides being an accomplished Advocate is also a senior politician. He is one of the few Advocates, who I used at least twice a week before the lockdown in the Supreme Court. Designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court at the age of 34, he hardly wears the senior's gown and the coat to show off his importance. He is perhaps the one and the only Advocate who happened to be the Advocate General of Mizoram before becoming the Governor of the same state. His wife
late Ms Sushma Swaraj was one of the finest politicians of India. Therefore, the Government of
India will do well to take the help of Shri Swaraj Kaushal and Pandit Arjun Prasad Bastola
to ensure that the Chinese game plan to drive a wedge between India and Nepal is squarely defeated.
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