KATHMANDU: Former Prime Minister and Nepal Samajbadi Party Chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has expressed his concern about the geographical identification of some Nepali territories as India’s on the murals of its new parliament building.
Bhattarai expressed his interest in noticing Nepal’s Kapilvastu and Lumbini as Indian lands in the murals.
He said that referring to Nepali land Lumbini and Kapilbastu as Indian land may cause a rift in the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
“The controversial mural of ‘Akhand Bharat’ in the recently inaugurated new Parliament building of India may stoke unnecessary and harmful diplomatic row in the neighborhood including Nepal,” Dr. Bhattarai wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, adding, “It has the potential of further aggravating the trust deficit already vitiating the bilateral relations between most of the immediate neighbors of India.”
He has suggested the Indian political leadership unravel and communicate in time the real intent and ramifications of the mural episode.
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