Nepal’s decision to go to local polls?

भिडियो हेर्न तलको बक्स भित्र क्लिक गर्नुहोस

Election atmosphere is building across the country. People have started to talk about leaders and parties they'll vote for, even predict who will win most seats in the polls that are taking place after two decades.Amid this hope and uncertainty, some uncomfortable questions also loom: What if Madheshi Morcha resorts to violent protests, as they did in 2015, to foil elections in Madhesh? What if India, once again, resorts to tactics that, in form, look like doings of Madheshi people themselves but, in essence, will be India’s own to get the amendment bill passed before the election? Why has India, which has ‘welcomed’ the whole thing to amend the constitution that it only ‘noted’ not welcomed Nepal’s decision to go to local polls?

In a country where India’s interests are openly visible in its political affairs, answers to the questions sometime seem like foregone conclusions. Yet, it won’t be irrelevant to keep India informed of certain issues.Seventeen months after constitution promulgation in September, 2015, some Indian politicians still seem to think in rumors about Nepal’s constitution. From a conversation with me and Biswas Baral a fortnight ago, Maoist Center leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha (who had just returned from his week-long Delhi trip) expressed his disbelief of how ill-informed Indians are. “They told me Indian women married to Madheshis are not entitled to citizenships in Nepal,” he told us. “I had to remind them that these are entitled to Nepali citizenship the moment they produce proof that they are relinquishing Indian citizenship.”
“I told them that Nepali women married to Indian men have to wait for seven years in India to even start methods to reduce of acquiring Indian citizenship, but Indian woman can seek Nepali citizenship right after her marriage in Nepal,” he supposed. “Such is the misunderstanding India has cultivated about citizenship provisions of our structure.”