Nepal to Send Revised Controversial Map to India, UN & International Community

The government of Nepal plans to send its recently revised map to the international community, Google and India, said a minister.

Indian territories of Kalapani, Limpiyadhura, and Lipulekh will be included in the revised map, the minister added. “We are soon delivering the revised map incorporating Kalapani, LipuLekh and Limpiyadhura to the international community,” said Minister for Land Management, Padma Aryal. The map was passed by 258 votes in the country’s 275-seat parliament.

The ministry has even asked the department of measurement to print 4,000 copies of the updated version of Nepal’s map. This will be in the English language so as to send it to the international community. Up to 25,000 copies have been printed by the department and are also distributed around the nation. People can buy the newly revised map for Nepali Rs 50 and provincial and all other public offices will be given copies free of cost.She added that the map will have been delivered by the end of Nepali month of Shrawan (mid-August). 

The ministry is also preparing to publish a book including the encroached territories of Kalapani, LipuLekh and Limpiyadhura. “However, our first priority for now is to print the English version of the updated map and distribute it to the international community,” minister Aryal said.

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has faced strong opposition within his ruling Nepal Communist Party over the redrawing of borders with India. A rival faction, led by party executive chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, has said Oli’s anti-India remarks were neither ‘politically correct nor diplomatically appropriate.’

On the counterpart, India has said that Nepal's unilateral action is "not based on historical facts and evidence."

India also said that the move is contrary to the bilateral understanding to resolve the outstanding boundary issues through diplomatic dialogue and "such artificial enlargement of territorial claims will not be accepted by India".    

Nepal and India have an open border of more than 16,000 km. The two countries are in dispute over several of these places. Kalapani, LipuLekh and Susta are among the territories at the center of the dispute. India and Nepal have been discussing the issue for a long time.

There is no doubt that the release of a new political map will escalate the dispute between two countries, but it has also put pressure on the Indian side to sit for talks. This move has broken the status quo that had prevailed since the Sugauli Treaty which states that Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limpiyadhura belong to Nepal.    

Nepal should be ready to face India and India should be ready to hold serious bilateral dialogues to resolve this issue.  

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