Koshi agreement with India suicidal says Nepal PM- Dahal
TGW
What Nepal’s newly elected Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said of India on Wednesday, August 20, 2008, as regards the Koshi River Flood Disaster must have terribly shaken the coercive Indian regime, say analysts.
“The flood in the Sunsari district caused by the Koshi River is not just the problem of the denizens of Sunsari alone, it is indeed a national crisis…if we will not be able to tackle it nationally, we will talk to the international community as regards the solution to the problems in a permanent basis”.
“The suicidal agreement of Koshi signed in 1954 with the Indian establishment in an un-reciprocal basis is the main cause behind the flooding of the Nepali territory every year”, said Nepal’s Prime Minister who looked somewhat saddened by the damage wrecked by the flood in Sunsari district.
The agreement of Koshi River was signed between Nepal and India during the premier ship of Matrika Prasad Koirala on 25 April 1954. Late Matrika P. Koirala is the elder brother of Nepal’s India born ex-Prime Minster Girija Prasad Koirala who has the distinction of signing yet another unequal treaty of Tanakpur. Similarly, B.P. Koirala, the younger brother of M.P. Koirala also had the distinction to knowingly disadvantaging Nepal by signing the unequal Gandak River Treaty with Nepal’s “traditional and friendly” neighbor India.
“We will talk to the International Community and seek needed legal support to solve the Koshi Dam problem”, PM Dahal continued. “The state of damage is unprecedented…it should be the prime duty of India as per the agreement to repair the damage it has caused to Nepal”.
Prime Minster Dahal made these remarks at a program organized in Ineruwa the district headquarters of Sunsari---who flew to Sunsari to inspect the ongoing relief and the rescue programs.
Upendra Yadav, the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum president had accompanied Prime Minister Dahal. Mr. Yadav was spotted on T.V. asking several questions in Maithili language to the flood victims. Similarly, the Maoists party has decided to deploy the YCL (Young Communist League) cadres in the flood affected areas to help the government machinery.
Krishna Bahadur K.C., a YCL in charge says talking to a daily news paper today, “we will soon send our cadres to the area to support the government”.
“The Indian regime has no right to shed crocodile tears regarding the Koshi Dam issue”, he said adding that we will not let India haphazardly construct dams and embankments along the Nepal-India border. India has already constructed 11 dams of which eight are illegally constructed without consulting Nepal ignoring international regulations.
Most of the embankments are constructed without following international guidelines which prohibits such construction within eight km of the border, nevertheless all the embankments unilaterally constructed by India fail to follow the guidelines. “India by building such dams and embankments across the border aims at turning Nepali lands-Tarai into a huge reservoir of water by controlling the natural flow of water”, say experts.
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What Nepal’s newly elected Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said of India on Wednesday, August 20, 2008, as regards the Koshi River Flood Disaster must have terribly shaken the coercive Indian regime, say analysts.
“The flood in the Sunsari district caused by the Koshi River is not just the problem of the denizens of Sunsari alone, it is indeed a national crisis…if we will not be able to tackle it nationally, we will talk to the international community as regards the solution to the problems in a permanent basis”.
“The suicidal agreement of Koshi signed in 1954 with the Indian establishment in an un-reciprocal basis is the main cause behind the flooding of the Nepali territory every year”, said Nepal’s Prime Minister who looked somewhat saddened by the damage wrecked by the flood in Sunsari district.
The agreement of Koshi River was signed between Nepal and India during the premier ship of Matrika Prasad Koirala on 25 April 1954. Late Matrika P. Koirala is the elder brother of Nepal’s India born ex-Prime Minster Girija Prasad Koirala who has the distinction of signing yet another unequal treaty of Tanakpur. Similarly, B.P. Koirala, the younger brother of M.P. Koirala also had the distinction to knowingly disadvantaging Nepal by signing the unequal Gandak River Treaty with Nepal’s “traditional and friendly” neighbor India.
“We will talk to the International Community and seek needed legal support to solve the Koshi Dam problem”, PM Dahal continued. “The state of damage is unprecedented…it should be the prime duty of India as per the agreement to repair the damage it has caused to Nepal”.
Prime Minster Dahal made these remarks at a program organized in Ineruwa the district headquarters of Sunsari---who flew to Sunsari to inspect the ongoing relief and the rescue programs.
Upendra Yadav, the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum president had accompanied Prime Minister Dahal. Mr. Yadav was spotted on T.V. asking several questions in Maithili language to the flood victims. Similarly, the Maoists party has decided to deploy the YCL (Young Communist League) cadres in the flood affected areas to help the government machinery.
Krishna Bahadur K.C., a YCL in charge says talking to a daily news paper today, “we will soon send our cadres to the area to support the government”.
“The Indian regime has no right to shed crocodile tears regarding the Koshi Dam issue”, he said adding that we will not let India haphazardly construct dams and embankments along the Nepal-India border. India has already constructed 11 dams of which eight are illegally constructed without consulting Nepal ignoring international regulations.
Most of the embankments are constructed without following international guidelines which prohibits such construction within eight km of the border, nevertheless all the embankments unilaterally constructed by India fail to follow the guidelines. “India by building such dams and embankments across the border aims at turning Nepali lands-Tarai into a huge reservoir of water by controlling the natural flow of water”, say experts.
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