Anti-India protests erupt in Nepal

[Paksanity]

Mon Sep 28, 2015 | 11:37 AM EDT

ANTI-INDIA PROTESTS ERUPT IN NEPAL AS FUEL RATIONING BITES

Anti-India protests erupt in Nepal as fuel rationing bites| Reuters

By Ross Adkin

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's cable federation said it would suspend Indian television channels and protesters marched in Kathmandu carrying an effigy of India's prime minister on Monday, accusing their neighbour of imposing an economic blockade and meddling in internal politics.

Tension between the South Asian nations has spiked since Nepal adopted a new constitution last week, upsetting southern minority groups who fear being marginalised in a new federal structure.

More than 40 people have been killed in protests in the Himalayan republic since August. Indian oil trucks stopped crossing into Nepal because of protests in the south, prompting authorities to try to limit the use of cars and save fuel.

Nepal is almost totally dependent on India for overland supplies following earthquakes in the spring that killed nearly 9,000 people and blocked crossings from China.

India has been critical of Kathmandu for rushing through the constitution, despite opposition from minorities living close to the Indian border.

On Monday, a few trucks carrying fuel, vegetables and building materials started to cross the border into Nepal but hundreds more were waiting on the Indian side, a customs official in Nepal said.


TV CHANNELS OFF AIR

The Federation of Nepal Cable Television planned to suspend broadcasting of Indian channels in Nepal from 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Sunil Kumar Lama, the organization's general secretary, said on Monday.

"This is to protest against the blockade," Lama said. He declined to say how long the suspension would last.

Earlier in the day, protesters in central Kathmandu carried an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and shouted: "Down with Indian expansionism! Down with Modi!" before police scattered them and confiscated the effigy.

"We are asking India 'Please, please open up the border and stop interfering in Nepal's internal issues'," said nursing student Amrita Baral, who was among 130 protesters in a second march headed for the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu.

A representative of India's Ministry of External Affairs declined to comment on the new protests.

Nepal's largest trading partner, India strongly denies a trade blockade, saying its trucks have been hampered from entering Nepal firstly due to security concerns and later because protesters were blocking the roads.

A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Nepal had asked China to hasten the re-opening of the two border crossings closed since the earthquakes struck.

Nepal started rationing fuel for vehicles on Sunday, said Nepal Oil Corp spokesman Deepak Baral, after trade ground to a halt at crossing points on the India-Nepal border.

Hundreds of trucks carrying food and fuel lined up on the Indian side, while opposition protesters on the Nepal side sat on the road to block their path.

Some trucks started to move across the Sunauli-Bhairahawa border crossing on Monday, a customs official in Nepal said, but more than 1,000 trucks were still waiting in India.

"(Indian customs officials) are telling me, 'We're giving permission, there's no problem,' but we are still seeing a huge decrease in the number of trucks passing through," said Lawanya Kumar Dhakal, Bhairahawa's chief customs official.


(Additional reporting by Krista Mahr and Rupam Jain Nair in New Delhi; Writing by Krista Mahr; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

This is awesome...Nepalis ransacking their own country for the sake of protest.

 

[Paksanity]

It is just appalling. Each nation has the right to choose its way to the future. India should learn to respect its neighbors whether small or big.

 

[Kompromat]

True face of Hindutva is on display in Nepal. Hats of to Nepalese people for protecting their sovereignty from the fat bully.

 

[Mythal]

Wait a second, let me get this straight.
So Nepal introduced a new constitution.
Minorities residing in Southern Nepal feel marginalized and protest.
Because of these protests in Southern Nepal trucks from India are not entering into Nepal.
How is India responsible? How is this a blockade? Why would Indian truck drivers just drive through regions where people are being killed due to protests.

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

True face of Hindutva is on display in Nepal. Hats of to Nepalese people for protecting their sovereignty from the fat bully.

Are you for real.... Do you even know that Nepal is a Hindu majority country...so you are claiming that when you say Hindutva.. you mean Indianness?

 

[Paksanity]

True face of Hindutva is on display in Nepal. Hats of to Nepalese people for protecting their sovereignty from the fat bully.

BJP did not even consider that Nepal has just been through a major natural calamity. People have lost their homes in earthquake and winter is setting in in the highlands of Nepal. People need fuel to keep warm and supplies to keep moving. This is so cruel and heartless. I feel sad for Nepali people. Their only fault is they chose to make their own decision. This is inhumane, man.

 

[Echo_419]

BJP did not even consider that Nepal has just been through a major natural calamity. People have lost their homes in earthquake and winter is setting in in the highlands of Nepal. People need fuel to keep warm and supplies to keep moving. This is so cruel and heartless. I feel sad for Nepali people. Their only fault is they chose to make their own decision. This is inhumane, man.

You don't know shite

 

[Aarush]

BJP did not even consider that Nepal has just been through a major natural calamity. People have lost their homes in earthquake and winter is setting in in the highlands of Nepal. People need fuel to keep warm and supplies to keep moving. This is so cruel and heartless. I feel sad for Nepali people. Their only fault is they chose to make their own decision. This is inhumane, man.

India did not blockade any supply..trucks are stopped at border due to the ongoing protest from other side..its not India's fault...


Hundreds of protesters have blocked a major trading checkpoint between Indiaand Nepal, cutting off vital supplies to the landlocked Himalayan nation as anger deepens over its new constitution.

The protesters, who belong to the Madhesi community, are angry about plans to divide Nepal into seven federal provinces under a charter adopted on Sunday.

More than 40 people have died in weeks of clashes between police and protesters from the Madhesi and Tharu communities, ethnic minorities who say the new internal borders leave them under-represented in the national parliament.

“We blocked the crossing overnight and we will not budge until the government listens to us and makes changes to these new borders in the constitution,” said Shiva Patel, general secretary of the regional Sadbhawana party.


About 900 trucks carrying food, fuel and other items were lined up on the Indian side of the Raxaul-Birgunj border on Saturday, said Kamlesh Kumar, assistant commissioner of customs at the border point, as protestors from the Madhesi Morcha party blocked the road in Nepal for a third day.

“If we do ration petrol and oil, we can manage for a couple of weeks,” said Deepak Baral, a Nepal Oil Corp spokesman.

Nepalese officials, however, pinned blame for the logjam on India, Nepal’s southern neighbour and biggest trading partner, which has been drawn into the political crisis after criticising Nepal’s political leadership for rushing through the constitution despite the dissent.

but it is easy always to blame India...
Where is India's fault here?

Nepalese protesters block major trading checkpoint on Indian border | World news | The Guardian


Nepal considers fuel rationing as protesters block trucks | AJOT.COM

Nepal Anti-charter Protesters Block India Supplies | Al Jazeera America

 

[Paksanity]

You don't know shite

I might not but Nepalese sure do!

 

[SipahSalar]

Nepal shouldn't sweat much about the Hindutva wadis, they share a very long border with China. Time to change friends.

 

[Paksanity]

India did not blockade any supply..trucks are stopped at border due to the ongoing protest from other side..its not India's fault...


Hundreds of protesters have blocked a major trading checkpoint between Indiaand Nepal, cutting off vital supplies to the landlocked Himalayan nation as anger deepens over its new constitution.

The protesters, who belong to the Madhesi community, are angry about plans to divide Nepal into seven federal provinces under a charter adopted on Sunday.

More than 40 people have died in weeks of clashes between police and protesters from the Madhesi and Tharu communities, ethnic minorities who say the new internal borders leave them under-represented in the national parliament.

“We blocked the crossing overnight and we will not budge until the government listens to us and makes changes to these new borders in the constitution,” said Shiva Patel, general secretary of the regional Sadbhawana party.


About 900 trucks carrying food, fuel and other items were lined up on the Indian side of the Raxaul-Birgunj border on Saturday, said Kamlesh Kumar, assistant commissioner of customs at the border point, as protestors from the Madhesi Morcha party blocked the road in Nepal for a third day.

“If we do ration petrol and oil, we can manage for a couple of weeks,” said Deepak Baral, a Nepal Oil Corp spokesman.

Nepalese officials, however, pinned blame for the logjam on India, Nepal’s southern neighbour and biggest trading partner, which has been drawn into the political crisis after criticising Nepal’s political leadership for rushing through the constitution despite the dissent.

but it is easy always to blame India...
Where is India's fault here?

Nepalese protesters block major trading checkpoint on Indian border | World news | The Guardian


Nepal considers fuel rationing as protesters block trucks | AJOT.COM

Protests are cover to blockade. Indian trucks will enter from south side of Nepal which is inhabited by the people for whom India is showing concern (although it is none of India's concern as matter being internal to a sovereign state). Why would then those people for whom India...errr BJP is showing sympathy, harm Indian trucks? Your supplies will keep rolling into Afghanistan despite security situation there only because it serves a purpose but would stop short of a country which has just been hit by an earthquake? All because they chose their constitution with their own free will? It really is a shame. No wonder Nepalese are appealing to China to open its border crossings.

 

[Echo_419]

I might not but Nepalese sure do!

Nope you don't,there is a difference BTW conspiracy theories & facts

Protests are cover to blockade. Indian trucks will enter from south side of Nepal which is inhabited by the people for whom India is showing concern (although it is none of India's concern as matter being internal to a sovereign state). Why would then those people for whom India...errr BJP is showing sympathy, harm Indian trucks? Your supplies will keep rolling into Afghanistan despite security situation there only because it serves a purpose but would stop short of a country which has just been hit by an earthquake? All because they chose their constitution with their own free will? It really is a shame. No wonder Nepalese are appealing to China to open its border crossings.

To much conspiracy

 

[Beta-Fighter]

Height of comedy is , Most of the PAK dont know what the ISUUE is ..... lol

 

[Aarush]

Protests are cover to blockade. Indian trucks will enter from south side of Nepal which is inhabited by the people for whom India is showing concern (although it is none of India's concern as matter being internal to a sovereign state). Why would then those people for whom India...errr BJP is showing sympathy, harm Indian trucks? Your supplies will keep rolling into Afghanistan despite security situation there only because it serves a purpose but would stop short of a country which has just been hit by an earthquake? All because they chose their constitution with their own free will? It really is a shame. No wonder Nepalese are appealing to China to open its border crossings.

Read Again.....it is not the case that they won't harm indian trucks bcz india shows the sympathy.

“We blocked the crossing overnight and we will not budge until the government listens to us and makes changes to these new borders in the constitution,” said Shiva Patel, general secretary of the regional Sadbhawana party.

and yes its their internal matter....countries have right to agree or disagree..

meanwhile supply resumed partially..

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