Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment 2077) Bill
The Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment 2077) Act provided the legal status to a new map of
Bidhya Devi Bhandari signed the Bill.[3]
The new map places
Lipulekh and Kalapani as territory under Nepal.[4][5] Nepal claims the area as per the Treaty of Sugauli and claims that India was granted permission for troop movement in the area in the 1950s, but since then India has refused to move them back.[6][4] The move also comes ahead of the Prime Minister of Nepal facing calls to step down, and days after India opened a road through Lipulekh to Lake Mansarovar in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.[1] In November 2019 India had issued a new map in which Kalapani, a disputed territory according to Nepal, was shown as Indian territory.[6][7] The map showed the regions as part of Uttarakhand.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Ghimire, Binod (13 June 2020). "Constitution amendment bill to update Nepal map endorsed unanimously at the Lower House". Kathmandu Post. Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ a b "Nepal parliament unanimously endorses second amendment, map updated". The Himalayan Times. 13 June 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- ^ ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ "Nepal seeks talks with India as its lower House approves amendment proposal on controversial new map". ANI News. 13 June 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ a b Giri, Anil (4 November 2019). "India's new political map places disputed territory of Kalapani inside its own borders". Kathmandu Post. Archived from the original on 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- ^ Tandan, Promod (25 June 2020). "Nepal is caught in the middle of India-China border tensions". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-06-27.