THE NEPALESE HIMALAYAN SCHEME

MARCH 2007

IN HIS EDITORIAL S.DASGUPTA IN TIMES OF INDIA DATED 19/04/2008 CASTIGATES THE MANDARINS OF SOUTH BLOCK FOR MISSING THE PROVERBIAL WOODS IN THEIR ANALYSIS OF THE NEPALESE POLITICAL SCENE PRE –THE RECENT ELECTIONS IN NEPAL.

Unfortunately the worthies of both south and north block have historically and are even today missing not only the proverbial woods but much much more in their analysis of the entire gamut of consequences that are going to result from the new neo-Nepalese movement..

The Indian trader is the van guard of our culture and ethos in any country. .He is the bravest of us risking his all in distant foreign cultures and always succeeding against the odds in guarding Indian values and thoughts in very difficult surroundings often critical and inimical to his success..

When will we learn that when we turn a blind eye to---- nay even encourage and allow---- basic anti Indian feelings, thoughts and behaviour to be articulated in every day life against our Indian traders, be they ever so lowly and vile in the eyes of the "educated" Babus of the embassies, we thereby establish the failure of Indian diplomacy right there and then and lay the foundation stone of all future Hate India campaigns that are
bound to be engineered ---because all people realize all to soon that a government which does not value and protect its best citizenry is up for sale and open to insults without repercussions..

The constant giving in by India to outrageous demands often targetted against India's basic security interests has encouraged a new sense of Nepalese chauvinism as evident not only in the Gorkha community of Nepal but more alarmingly in the Nepalese of Darjeeling and Sikkim hills .

Thus blatantly Nepal under Maoist control is demanding a revision of the Indo- Nepal treaty with Nepal insisting that all the benefits of the open border for Nepal continue while whittling down the protection given to Non-Nepalese ( read Indians) given by the treaty and south bloc ( to cover a potentially explosive situation resulting from the miss- reading of the Nepalese scene ) is now preparing to placate Prachanda by again conceding basic Indian interests as protected by the treaty of 1950.

India basely compromised on basic principals when it gave in to Bhutan by allowing eviction of Nepalese from Bhutan and as a hidden consequence it also gave up equal treatment protections for Indian required from Bhutan by treaty.. Today the government of India turns a blind eye to blatant discrimination of Indians in Bhutan and lauds itself for successful diplomacy!!


As a result the Nepalese have learned that Government of India will sacrifice basic values and policies without any thought just to buy peace for any petty problem they can engineer as they are aware that Delhi has no time for peripheral India.


As a direct consequence Nepalese chauvinism is taking directly Anti-Indian tones in its intellectual thrust and on the ground in Nepal and more importantly at home in Darjeeling ,Jalpaiguri and Sikkim the consequences are all to evident..

1. In Nepal as soon as Prachanda gets rid of the King his first political target will be to crush and destroy the very recent Madhese power base which has developed.(Madhesies are of-course hated and reviled as Indians)
However without absolute control of this populous and productive region no Government in Nepal can survive and Prachanda rightly calculates that India ever willing to buy peace when threatened will succumb when threatened by Nepalese backing the growing Moaist threat in India.. India will quickly agree to sacrifice the Madhesi cause for political and economic freedom in return for a temporary peace but India will once again gain nothing as Prachanda's threat will remain as blackmail chip against India for ever..
(Note China who would never countenance any such threats will be encouraging these activities from the sidelines.)

2. In Darjeeling Bimal Gurung has the Bengal Government by the hip and will soon have his Mini-Nepal as the Bengali Communists are ready to through in the trowel and will now allow the new state minus Siliguri which they are ridiculously protecting from even peaceful Nepalese processions by posting armed cadre at the entry points of the city.
Here to the interests of the minority Bengali, Bihari and other plains people known locally as Madhesies or "Indians" will be sacrificed to buy peace (and all important Siliguri town) from the proposed Gorkhaland State now a foregone conclusion.

3. In Sikkim the proof of all the above is already evident in black and white as

A. the government flouting all constitutional norms, requirement and safeguards has reserved 95% jobs in even the private sector for a specially created category under which the beneficiaries are the 75 % Nepalese Majority of the state . The deprived people are again the Madhesies.

B. Similarly the Government has also built up a plethora of Municipal rules specifically to prevent the Madhesi community from getting even petty trade licenses in this state. Thus even surpassing Kashmir this state is barred for Indians (Madhesies) unless they are rich Indians and have million of dollars to invest in lotteries and hydel projects which fund the political parties who work against India's interests.


C. Recently under the continuous secret haranguing of the state government the central finance bill is set to make into law provisions that will deny
Any Sikkimese women married to an "Indian" not only the political rights of her offspring but also her constitutional rights of inheritance and all this to prevent any "Indian" from gaining political rights in the projected racially pure Nepalese state.
Stopping benefits under the Income tax act to Madhesies of a hundred years history while allowing the same benefits to similarly placed Tibetans of 50 years and less ancestry and Nepalese with only 20 years ancestry.

D. I n the recent delimitation exercise in Sikkim Bureaucrats from Delhi worked at the behest of local political masters to break up three important constituencies Gangtok, Singtam and Jorethang all having substantial Madhesi (Indian) voting blocs. Each constituency was divided into two constituencies so that Madhesi political power could be whittled down to become ineffective. Ironically the Madhesies who are considered forward were in each case put into reserved scheduled caste / tribe constituencies.

It is quite evident that the bureaucrats in Delhi and their political masters are either not doing their job or are incapable of doing their job and are selling the interests of India and creating states which will ultimately prove anti-national with tendencies to blackmail the centre into further concessions ad infinitum and this is the charitable viewpoint.

The other viewpoint of the Indian Bureaucrat ready to pass any law or scheme in return for his cut is widely prevalent in the North Eastern states. Thus no N.E. state bothers with Accountant Generals or accounts which are in general woefully missing. Each State is aware that each secretary is for sale as he always wants his favourite businessman to be sanctioned each big scheme that he releases for the state and the planning commission will take its cut for the plan funds and the well paid officers of the central government are only to happy to cover up accounting deficiencies by blaming it on the backward tribal who cannot keep accounts or as necessary payment for preventing potential insurgency.

In Sikkim China is known as "Mama" and the Nepalese traditionally turn for help to their mother's brother when they find going becomes tough in their fathers house.