India and Nepal have been actually shut neighbours. Nevertheless, within the final decade, the connection between the 2 nations has not been a straight one as each nations have travelled a tumultuous path. After yesteryear’s controversy over Lipulekh and Kalapani, contemporary turmoil is about to hit the relation between the 2 Asian nations. Nepal has now introduced to subject new foreign money notes which could have a brand new map that features three Indian territories. India has already rejected the transfer. What we all know to this point:
* A Cupboard assembly final week determined to exchange the previous map with the brand new one whereas printing new notes of Rs 100. The brand new map contains territories equivalent to Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura.
* India has been governing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura for lengthy.
* The transfer didn’t go effectively with some officers of Nepal. Nepal President’s financial advisor Chiranjivi Nepal termed the transfer inappropriate. His remarks led to nationwide outrage in Nepal.
* Following the uproar, the Nepal authorities requested him to resign. The financial advisor to Nepalese President Ram Chandra Paudel resigned after this.
* President Paudel accepted Chiranjivi Nepal’s resignation yesterday, in line with the press launch issued by the Workplace of the President.
* Chiranjivi Nepal earlier served because the governor of Nepal’s central financial institution.
* CPN-UML chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had publicly criticised Chiranjivi Nepal for his remarks.
* Nepal’s authorities unveiled its new political map with the inclusion of Lipulek, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas inside its territory in Might 2020 throughout the federal government led by Oli. He’s thought-about near China.
* Indian Exterior Affairs Minister S Jayashankar has expressed discontent over the Nepal authorities’s choice to subject the brand new notes.
* Nepal shares a border of over 1,850 km with 5 Indian states — Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. (With PTI inputs)