Nepal renews its map: Has Nepal entered in the race of taking the lands of India?

Nepal renews its map: Has Nepal entered in the race of taking the lands of India?

Map of Nepal

 Nepal’s House of Representatives on Saturday unanimously announced a Constitutional amendment updating the map on its coat of arms to add three areas of Kalapani, Lipulekh, and Limpiyadhura that India later in the evening declared were part of its region.

The die for a change in the Constitution was cast about 10 days ago when Nepal’s Lower House unanimously passed a decision to change the map on its coat of arms. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) here accused Nepal of breaking the “current understanding” to hold discussions on outstanding border issues. “We have already made our position clear on this matter. This artificial enlargement of claims is not based on historical fact or evidence and is not tenable,” stated MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava.

Nepal’s map change was in reply to two Indian moves over eight months. In early November, India issued a new political map. Its central intention was to reflect the new reality of the former state of J&K split into two Union Territories, but it also combined Kalapani, Lipulekh, and Limpiyadhura. On May 8, the debate was re-stoked when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a road from Dharchula in Uttarakhand to the controversial spot of Lipulekh.

Darchula (Marked in red)

This set in motion a political process that has commenced to changes in Nepal’s political map and while Nepal’s PM and Foreign Ministry openly requested India to hold discussions, particularly at the level of foreign secretaries, it was on Saturday that the MEA looked to hint that it had made an offer for talks. The amendment in the Lower House hung in balance as the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) was 10 seats short of the needed two-thirds majority.

Nepal government has also entered in the race of taking the lands of India like the latters. Nitin Gadkari has earlier mentioned that India doesn't need the land of Pakistan and China and it is also to be recorded that India is concentrating on the army in the Ladakh region.