As the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is making its lead in the Constituent Assembly election by sideling the Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), the Indian government has a greater concern over a Maoist-led government in India considering the past and present maoists influence.
The elated Maoist leader Prachanda before taking the power but with all possibility to take the guard has signalled in keeping good relationship with India. India however has a different story to tell unlike this Prachanda’s anti–India rhetoric in the past raising few concerns regarding Nepal’s possible support to Indian Maoist which in recent days have grown its influence and violence in case if Maoist wins the CA elections.
Earlier on April 04 Parachanda said, “If we win, I think, Maoists in India will also come into the mainstream and this will help India.”
Though Maoist’s win in Nepal doesn’t mean a great support to those in India but Indian foreign policy will now have to be rephrased for all possible support for the overall stability.
Experts believe that Indo-Nepal traditional relationship will play a major role; according to former Ambassador to Nepal Deb Mukherjee, no government in Nepal will take the risk of giving refuse to the Indian Maoist.
KV Rajan who too served the post of Ambassador of Nepal said India should be positive towards the people’s choice and should take it as an opportunity to restructure relationship with Nepal.
While Shiv Mukherjee, the present Ambassador to Nepal said, “We will be completely comfortable, to answer your question specifically, in dealing with a government that is dominated by Maoists. We have no problem with that provided they come to power through free and fair elections.”
But before dealing with its neighbour, Prachanda will have to disown his earlier profligacy and radical approach to give Nepal stability and pull it from the dwindling economic progress.
The Maoist leader seems to know the difficulties and has assured the international community to work in harmony with other parties.
Stressing on multi party system he said, “It is important to create a vibrant society that has harmony with itself. For that we came to a conclusion that we need to take the peace process forward, we need multi-party competition and hence it has changed our entire outlook.”
This will be acid test for Prachanda and his comrades who till now have lead violence to gain political means and have ran parallel government. At the same time India too has to bring some kind of demarcation between the Maoists in Nepal in power and those in India.
India has to take a positive stand coming out from the geo-political reality counting the present political and economic trends in Nepal which needs a greater change in approach from both parts by reasserting the traditional form and with a respect to each other’s security concerns.
Certainly the people of Nepal have given their mandate to establish peace and prosperity in a country where economic condition has been marred by decades of violence and as the world looks for change in Nepal, the people of Nepal too have pinned their hope and expect a peaceful Nepal in return.
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