National/Regional Affairs

By N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: After the advent of Narendra Modi as India’s Prime Minister in 2014 after carrying out the Gujarat massacre, the entire Indian establishment is hell-bent on compelling its innocent nationals to eat, drink and digest the fake news manufactured by the Modi disciples in their dark chambers. They are paid for serving Modi’s anti-Muslim drive. As a next-door neighbour, Nepal too is subjected to bear with the “Godi media” (dis)information campaign day in and day out whether it be of the Sri Lankan debt trap or even when they disseminate “Nepal is on the way of a debt trap the Sri Lankan way”. Sri Lanka is in sheer trouble but it is not only due to the Chinese “loan” money which has trapped Sri Lanka as is being made to understand by the media in the West in general and India in particular, but Sri Lanka is in a mess of its own making or better say mismanagement of the loans received from the Western nations as well under various names. The executive heads may have missed the opportunity and hence the Sri Lankan crisis in the Himalayan dimension. The erratic Godi media under the instructions of Shankar, the most repulsive personality in India after Prime Minister Modi, has begun disseminating Nepal too has been on its way to Sri Lanka. The Godi media feels threatened only because China has deep interests in Sri Lanka which is only natural. If India can eye on Sri Lanka then why can't China? The fact is that India wants to occupy China’s place in Colombo. While writing this story, Al Jazeera (May 9) reports, “Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned amid dangerous protests over the island nation’s worsening economic crisis. The Guardian (May 9) reports, “Mahinda Rajapaksa was reportedly asked to resign by his brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksha, at a special meeting held on Friday (last) in an attempt to appease the irate demonstrators”. Observers in Nepal suspect the “invisible” hand of the Indian establishment in fomenting trouble in Sri Lanka which is already in an economic crisis that has shaken the Gotabaya’s regime. But why? The answer is clear. Utmost care must be taken in advance or else the Godi media will pounce upon Nepal and begin saying that China has duped Nepal and hence the present crisis which is yet a distant reality but not impossible. Let’s take Godi media as a menace for South Asia as is PM Modi for the entire region. Indian media is hell-bent on proving the Sri Lankan crisis to have been due to China’s Debt Trap which it is not. It has rightly been said that the Godi media --those media which have direct access to Prime Minister Modi of the Gujrat infamy -- in the recent years has excelled in damaging a person or any person whom they prefer to smash up either on their own or at the instructions of the South Block. Only last year, Ms. Hou Yanqi, sitting Chinese Ambassador in Nepal, was insulted to the hilt to the extent of even dubbing the lady Ambassador from China to have been “seducing” the then Prime Minister K. P. Oli. “Honey Trap” is the exact word that had been used by the erratic and irresponsible Godi media to malign the Chinese envoy and Prime Minister K. P. Oli. PM Oli even if he is excessively close to the Indian RAW agency and its chief Samanta Kumar Goyal, for some political differences with the Indian establishment surely had inched closer to the Chinese regime.
  1. P. Oli, we have been briefed, remains all the time in the inner “pocket” of the RAW Chief. Most of the Nepali leaders too could be located inside the pouch of the RAW Chief, it is generally believed.
And it was this proximity with the Chinese regime then through the Chinese Ambassador that irked the entire uncivilized and paid Godi media in Delhi or better say across India to the extent that both PM Oli and the Chinese envoy became the specific objective of the funded Indian media. The closeness was necessitated with the imposition of the most inhumane Indian economic blockade on Nepal, to recall. Unfortunately, after the damage was done in Nepal, a few months later the “insulted” Prime Minister Oli graciously invited Modi’s mouthpiece Sudhir Choudhary and accorded the “India’s most corrupt and mentally deranged brain” a red carpet welcome. Instead of feeling obliged for the prime ministerial treatment in Nepal, Modi's sponsored mouthpiece declared from the base camp of Mount Everest which is right inside Nepal that “India too must claim Mount Everest as its own”. Choudhary’s vitriolic comments made from the Everest base camp jolted the entire nation and let’s presume that the then Prime Minister Oli too must have felt ashamed. But no. Oli didn’t feel ashamed. Instead of feeling ashamed, he allowed Indian Spy agency Chief Samanta Kumar Goyal to enter his official residence at fateful midnight. Reports said then that the RAW Head Goyal landed in Kathmandu and made his way straight inside the “bedroom” of the Prime Minister who is being accused of “selling” the entire Mahakali River to India at a dirt-cheap price some three decades ago. It was also rumored that those UML workers and leaders who did not get their proper share from the River selling transaction split vertically and hence the formation of the ML (Marxists-Leninists) Party. Among those who quit the UML then were Bamdev Gautam and C. P. Mainali. Strong rumors had it then that a highly pleased Indian establishment with the grand service rendered by K. P. Oli and his UML team plus those former Panchas who have had direct “connections” with the Indian establishment, for handing over the entire Mahakali River to India made arrangements for K. P Oli’s kidney treatment in Medanta Hospital in Delhi. Most interesting is that the total payment for the kidney transplant was borne out by the RAW Indian agency as a mark of “respect and honor” for KP Oli’s “contributions, the rumor went then. And look at the tragedy. But yet the Chinese and for that matter, the Pakistanis based in Kathmandu, take K. P. Oli as their trusted man in the political spectrum. High placed sources emphatically claim that ninety percent of the political animals controlling the Nepali politics as of today are being controlled by the RAW agency. Going one more step further, what could also be said is that seventy percent of the Nepali media (the broadsheets and some weeklies) feel confident and happy to insult their own motherland as and when there is a tussle in Nepal-India bilateral relations. These media would spare no time to point out Nepal’s fault instead of pointing to the South. For instance, some so-called “vibrant” media even stated that India had not imposed any “economic blockade” on Nepal in the year 2015 September. Shame too have felt ashamed! A set of media here toed the line acquired by some selected Tarai/Madhesi leaders who had been encouraging the Indian establishment to linger the blockade for a few more months. The climax of it all was that a set of India sponsored Nepali leaders pelted stones on the Nepali side by residing on the Indian side of the border. This explains how Nepal has already been made a protectorate by the Indian regime. Just waiting for the formal declaration? I would politely say that Nepal is already an extended province of India. Prove me wrong if you can! Chairman of the Indian National Congress Rahul Gandhi landed in Kathmandu recently. He is the son of the Italian Queen, Sonia Gandhi who together with the most notorious Indian national Shyam Saran damaged Nepal and brought the country to this torn state that it is today wherein India elevated and subservient “leaders” rule the once independent and sovereign country, Nepal. In a way, Rahul Gandhi is the son of that woman who is responsible for Nepal's uninterrupted misery since 2006. It was India sponsored, designed, funded and executed political movement that heralded untold suffering in Nepal and its people. Indian sleuths were paid highly, we have been told. Rahul Gandhi was in Kathmandu for a single social reason and that was to attend the wedding ceremony of his “intimate” friend Ms. Sumnima Udas. Ms. Sumnima is learnt to have resided some years in Delhi as the CNN-TV news anchor and during her stay in the seat of the former Mughal emperors and British East India Company, she is talked to have “developed” closeness with Rahul Gandhi. They became near and dear friends which is why Rahul came to Kathmandu to wish her a happy life. During his Kathmandu stay, Rahul happened to enter the Lord of Drinks (LOD) bar wherein he was spotted, as per the repulsive Godi media, to have been mingling with the Chinese Ambassador to which she was not. A lady with a Mongolian look was indeed talking with Gandhi at the LOD which was disseminated in India by the most hated Godi media as “Rahul Gandhi mingling with India’s enemy in Kathmandu”. Needless to say, the Godi media took for granted the lady to be the Chinese Ambassador. As luck would have it, the entire Godi media fell flat when the same Mongolian looking lady had in the past met with Prime Minister Modi and had clicked a photograph. The lady who was taken as Chinese Ambassador based in Kathmandu was for sure, “Saraswoti Khatri” who is, we have been told, a singer in Nepal. China’s so-called “friends in the Nepali media” exhibited their reluctance in deriding the Godi media when Ambassador Hou was being taken to task and practically insulted. This means, as we wrote several times in the past, the media close to China in Nepal were all deputed by the RAW to act as friends of China in Nepal. Mini China in Kathmandu gets duped which is why China’s influence in Nepali politics is at its all-time low. Believe it or not, the fact has been presented here. The reality is that India’s RAW agency has deep penetration that exceeds all. Nepal awaits yet another cheat and deceit from India: Official news media in Nepal have reported that on the day of Buddha Purnima (only a few days from today) and Indian PM Modi is likely to visit Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Nepalese population fear that Modi shall in all likelihood take photos of the places he visits in Lumbini, Nepal, only to copy those to give a formal shape (replicate) to what he will call later the “real birthplace of Lord Buddha” in nearby Indian villages bordering Nepal. Prime Minister Modi while in Nepal claims that Lord Buddha was born in Nepal, however, in Germany he has, in the past, been heard lecturing “India is a place where Lord Buddha was born”. Burn the Minority Muslims: The WIRE (May 08) reports, “Bharatiya Janta Party ( BJP) MLA Hari Bujhushan Thakur Bachaul on Saturday, May 7, said, “Muslims should be set ablaze just as Hindus burn Ravana effigies during the festival of Dussehra”. This outlandish statement by a BJP MLA is difficult even to listen to but the fact is that it has been made by the erratic MLA belonging to the ruling Party BJP. What is unfortunate is neither Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden nor even German Chancellor and French President Emanuel Macron utter a single word against the Islamophobic Indian regime. Islamophobia is synonymous with the Indian regime and vice versa. The BJP man made this statement in Patna, Bihar, where a discussion was held on “The Untold Story of Kashmiri Hindus”. The WIRE further writes, “when asked where are the Ravanas in Bihar, the BJP man easily said, “you go and see what is happening in Kashmir, Kishanganj, what is happening in Purnia, a place close to Nepal border in Biratnagar. The Seemanachal region, writes the Wire, in Bihar consists of four districts: Kishanganj, Araria, Purnia and Katihar. The region has a 47% Muslim population and accounts for 24 Assembly seats”. Are the US, UK, Germany and France listening as to what is happening in India against the Minority Muslims? And for the Road: As per Al Jazeera (25 April) ‘The state of religious freedom in India “significantly worsened” last year, a United States panel has said, calling for targeted sanctions against the country over alleged abuses”. The news outlet further states that “in its annual report released recently, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urged the State Department for the third straight year to place India on the US list of “countries of particular concern”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken just a fortnight ago took to task the Indian Foreign Minister and told him straight that the “US has been noticing of late India’s state-sponsored abuses on minorities more so against the Muslims”. India remains undeterred. The US's hands are tied as the US has declared India as its “strategic partner”. This explains the rest. Those who understand the “art of diplomacy” could understand the inner meaning of the US threat to the recognized South Asian hooligan India. That’s all.