In the midst of political unpredictability and vulnerability in Nepal following the disintegration of the country’s House of Representatives on former 20 December, the incumbent Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli has now said that the country would ‘retrieve’ Kalapani, Limpiyadhura, and Lipulekh from India via diplomatic dialogue.
PM Oli’s declaration comes in front of Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali’s visit to India on 14 January. He stated, “Today, we are facing difficulties to get back our land because Nepali rulers never made efforts to reclaim Nepali territories after Indian military forces started to station there following the India-China war in 1962.”
PM Oli added, “We are attempting to extend ties with India based on sovereign equality. Indeed, we need to extend the relationship with India in obvious sense and we should not hesitate to raise our issues of genuine concerns with India.”
Tending to the seventh meeting of the Parliament, PM Oli proceeded to affirm, “Nepali land will be retrieved at any cost.”
This comes when bilateral ties had just started to recuperate. PM Oli has himself also acknowledged that the ties between the two nations have improved ‘dramatically’ over the past few months.