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Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kamal Thapa has claimed that India's former Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj is not in favor of imposing a blockade on Nepal.
Thapa said this in an interaction program held on Monday with foreign affairs reporting journalists about his published book 'Blockade and Geopolitics: My Experience and Feeling in Diplomacy'.
India has blockaded Nepal four times so far. But Thapa himself is the witness of the two blockades. He was the Minister of Communications when India imposed a blockade for the third time in 2045/46 and the last time when Nepal imposed a blockade after issuing a new constitution in 2072, he was in the role of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
During the blockade of 2072, the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli sent Thapa to New Delhi several times to open the blockade. In Delhi, Thapa met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and other BJP leaders and officials of the state apparatus.
'As I understood at that time, Sushma Swarajji was not in favor of imposing a blockade on Nepal. At that time, I also saw that Prime Minister Modi was angry with Sushmaji," Thapa said, "I also had a one-to-one meeting with Prime Minister Modi and he was angry that your leaders did not implement the commitments they had made by coming here. After I came to Nepal, I had talked about that commitment in the all-party meeting . Sher Bahadur Deuba and Pushpa Kamal Dahal opened the pole themselves. How can it not be kept as secular as they say?
Thapa has been foreign minister three times. He became the foreign minister for the first time in 2054. Then again in 2054-55 he held the responsibility of Foreign Minister . The last time was in the year 2072, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs along with the Deputy Prime Minister.
'I have written in the book the role I played during the blockade and all the unfolding events of that time . I have presented the role I played in opening the blockade at that time under the direction of Raja Birendra when I was the Minister of Communications and later the work I did with KP Sharma Oli,' said Thapa. In the book, he gave detailed information about the role he played in revising the 1950 peace and friendship treaty between Nepal and India when he was the foreign minister for the first and second time, the achievements and the failure to move forward in the book. Thapa also said that he has written a separate chapter on the China issue.
Thapa also informed that his book will be released on August 10. His book is about to be published by Sankarhun Publications.
This is Thapa's third book. He has previously written books on the Maoist conflict called "Challenges of Conflict Management" and about his own father Chhatra Bahadur Thapa called "Ek Oka Ko Sainik, Sevebhari Ko Sainik".
