The article talking about Indian meddling in the affairs of Nepal was
highly imbalanced with it wishfully ignoring a lot of other factors
that make it extremely necessary an involvement of India in the
affairs of Nepal. India has a porous border with Nepal and it is a
well known fact that Nepal has served as a transit route for the
procurement of arms by the CPI(Maoists) from China. The political
leanings of the Maoists were declared from the roof-top when breaking
centuries old tradition Prachanda chose to visit China before India. A
Maoist government in Nepal is definitely not in India's national
interest. The national interest may of course be sacrificed at the
altar of ethics and morality but that is not how the world functions
today. A fair play would have been desirable had all of the players
stuck to the rules. India has already lost much of the strategic
advantage it enjoyed in Myanamar (China is the biggest arms supplier
), Srilanka (Military deals during Elam war IV , Hambantota port
etc.) and now Nepal. Much of it is attributed to India's lethargy and
internal divisions ( even media is to be blamed for it). It high time
India realized the importance of maintaining favourable governments in
its neighborhood. We definitely desire a stable Nepal but one that is
independent in true sense not a proxy of another state with
conflicting interests.
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