What the India-Nepal Peace treaty is, and why Nepal has problems with it
The treaty to strengthen and develop India-Nepal ties has been in question in Kathmandu over the years. A call to revise it was raised again earlier this month.
Nayanima Basu 24 January, 2021 5:27 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: On 31 July 1950, India and Nepal signed a treaty of peace and friendship in an effort to “strengthen and develop these ties and to perpetuate peace between the two countries”. Over seven decades later, clamour is now growing louder in Nepal to “revise” the pact to reflect “new changes and realities”.
Nehru lost Nepal by rejecting King’s offer to merge it with India : Pranab Mukherjee in autobiography
In a sensational disclosure, late President Pranab Mukherjee says in his much-talked-about autobiography – ‘The Presidential Years’, has revealed how former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru committed a major blunder by rejecting Nepal’s King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah’s offer that the Himalayan nation is made a province of India.
According to the reports, in the chapter titled, ‘My Prime Ministers: Different Styles, Different Temperaments’, late President Mukherjee wrote that Nehru dealt with Nepal very diplomatically. He noted that after the Rana rule was replaced by the monarchy in Nepal, he wished for democracy to take root.
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Nepalâs King Suggested That Nepal Be Made An Indian Province, But Nehru rejected It: Pranab Mukherjee Memoir
Former president Pranab Mukherjee. (Arvind Yadav / Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
The late President Pranab Mukherjee says in his autobiography, The Presidential Years,â that the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru rejected an offer to make Nepal a province of India, reports
News 18. After the Rana rule was replaced by the monarchy in Nepal, he wished for democracy to take root. Interestingly, Nepalâs king, Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah, had suggested to Nehru that Nepal be made a province of India. But Nehru rejected the offer on the grounds that Nepal was an independent nation and must remain so,â writes late Mukherjee in his latest autobiography.