The Balen government of Nepal has expressed strong objection to the route of Mansarovar Yatra. With this, the Lipulekh dispute between India and Nepal has again come into limelight. India and China have agreed to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra via Lipulekh Pass. The Balen government says that this visit cannot be organized without the consent of Kathmandu, because Lipulekh is a part of Nepal.

Regarding this, the Nepal government has sent a diplomatic note to India as well as China. India has already been rejecting Nepal’s claim. China has also not taken any steps towards accepting Nepal’s situation. Analysts believe that Nepal took such steps on the Lipulekh controversy in the last few years, due to which the matter kept worsening.

what is the controversy
The root of the dispute is the tri-junction of Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani, which is part of India and is also controlled by India. Nepal claims this area as its own and cites the Sugauli Treaty of 1816. Nepal says that neither India nor China can trade or travel through Lipulekh without its consent.

India had started resolving the dispute
PM Modi was ready to talk about this during his initial tenure, hence he also visited Nepal in the year 2014. During that time, the foreign secretaries of both the countries were entrusted with the responsibility of talks. However, later such circumstances arose due to which not a single meeting could be held. In May 2020, Nepal’s Oli government took such a step that the situation worsened.

Oli government made a blunder
The Oli government released a map showing these three areas within the borders of Nepal and the Parliament also approved this map. After this, in June 2020, Nepal amended its constitution, so that the map can be included in the national emblem. India strongly opposed this. Nepal’s then Foreign Minister Pradiya Gyawali said while talking to Kathmandu Post that India had asked Nepal not to include the territorial dispute in the constitution. In return, political level talks were proposed but the Oli government did not agree and the amendment was passed with an overwhelming majority.

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China’s side
China is also a party in this entire dispute and Nepal’s experience with it is also not good. Kathmandu has repeatedly requested since 2015 not to allow trade or transit through Lipulekh, but Beijing is doing just that. Last year, when Prime Minister Oli went to China, he raised this issue during his meeting with Xi Jinping in Tianjin, but Xi clearly said that Nepal should resolve this issue with India.

Statement of former Nepali diplomat
Former Nepalese diplomat Shambhu Ram Simkhada, while talking to Kathmandu Post, said that we failed to understand the political wisdom of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who can play an important role in solving this. He said that as Indian politics is becoming more right-wing, Nepal will have to understand this ground reality.

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The matter has become tense after Nepal depicted three areas of India in the new Rs 100 note. In its new 100 rupee note, Nepal has shown Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as its territory, which have always been a part of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. After this step was taken by Nepal, India has expressed strong objection. India has termed this step of Nepal as a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. At the same time, the role of India and Nepal’s neighboring country China is also being told in this matter.

Foreign affairs expert Sanjeev Srivastava said that China has also played a role in making relations between India and Nepal tense. He said that many leaders of Nepal keep raising issues regarding India to earn their political livelihood. Many other leaders of Nepal like KP Sharma Oli, who are known for their closeness to China, China also hatches conspiracies through those leaders to create issues of dispute between India and Nepal.

He also said that such reports have also emerged that Nepal has got these new notes printed in China, due to which the bad tendency of creating tense disputes in the relations between India and Nepal is also coming to the fore.

India will not tolerate any interference on its sovereignty: Expert

Sanjeev Srivastava said that as far as India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are concerned, if anyone raises questions on it or tries to interfere in it, then this new India will never tolerate it.

He said that India has also clearly told the Government of Nepal that Nepal should avoid any such step and tendency, which may unnecessarily create tension between the relations between India and Nepal.

How did the dispute between India and Nepal start?

This dispute between India and Nepal started in the year 2020, when Nepal’s KP Oli government released a new political map and claimed that Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura are part of it due to the origin area of ​​Mahakali river. Even the Parliament of Nepal had approved that map. India had expressed strong opposition to this step of Nepal and said that it does not match the historical facts and administrative reality at all. Now the matter has become heated again due to the same map being used on currency notes.

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