KATHMANDU: The financial advisor to Nepal’s President Ram Chandra Paudel has resigned after his controversial remarks on the authorities’s resolution to problem new hundred-rupee notes with a map that features three Indian territories, a transfer already rejected by India. The President authorized Chiranjivi Nepal’s resignation on Sunday, in keeping with a press launch issued by the Workplace of the President.
“I made the remarks as an economist and a former governor of the central financial institution however some information media have twisted it in an try and unnecessarily drag the respectful establishment of the president into controversy, which made me really feel unhappy,” Chiranjivi Nepal PTI on Monday.
The brand new map contains territories similar to Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura.
India maintains Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura belong to it.
“I, due to this fact, tendered my resignation taking the ethical obligation of the try made by some on-line information portals which have tried to tug the president into controversy primarily based on my assertion,” he stated.
“My intention within the assertion was simply to make folks conscious as a acutely aware citizen that such acts might create sensible issues to the nation and the folks at a time when discussions are underway at diplomatic ranges (on the map),” he clarified.
A Cupboard assembly final week determined to switch the previous map with the brand new one whereas printing new notes of Rs 100.
CPN-UML chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had publicly criticised Chiranjivi Nepal for his remarks.
Earlier, a gaggle of civil society leaders had demanded the elimination of Chiranjivi Nepal over his remarks in opposition to the federal government’s resolution to print new hundred-rupee notes with the map of Nepal as per the amended Structure.
They argued that he had gone in opposition to nationwide curiosity and breached decorum whereas chatting with the nationwide and worldwide media on the matter.
Nepal’s authorities unveiled its new political map with the inclusion of Lipulek, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas inside its territory in Could 2020 throughout the federal government led by Oli. It was later endorsed by the Parliament unanimously. After that, the federal government changed the previous map utilized in all of the official paperwork with the brand new map regardless of India’s objection.
“This synthetic enlargement of claims isn’t primarily based on historic truth or proof and isn’t tenable. It’s also violative of our present understanding to carry talks on excellent boundary points,” India’s Exterior Affairs Ministry stated at the moment.
Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar final week expressed discontent over the Nepal authorities’s resolution to problem the brand new notes.
Jaishankar stated that it isn’t going to alter the state of affairs on the bottom.
Nepal shares a border of over 1,850 km with 5 Indian states – Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
“I made the remarks as an economist and a former governor of the central financial institution however some information media have twisted it in an try and unnecessarily drag the respectful establishment of the president into controversy, which made me really feel unhappy,” Chiranjivi Nepal PTI on Monday.
The brand new map contains territories similar to Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura.
India maintains Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura belong to it.
“I, due to this fact, tendered my resignation taking the ethical obligation of the try made by some on-line information portals which have tried to tug the president into controversy primarily based on my assertion,” he stated.
“My intention within the assertion was simply to make folks conscious as a acutely aware citizen that such acts might create sensible issues to the nation and the folks at a time when discussions are underway at diplomatic ranges (on the map),” he clarified.
A Cupboard assembly final week determined to switch the previous map with the brand new one whereas printing new notes of Rs 100.
CPN-UML chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had publicly criticised Chiranjivi Nepal for his remarks.
Earlier, a gaggle of civil society leaders had demanded the elimination of Chiranjivi Nepal over his remarks in opposition to the federal government’s resolution to print new hundred-rupee notes with the map of Nepal as per the amended Structure.
They argued that he had gone in opposition to nationwide curiosity and breached decorum whereas chatting with the nationwide and worldwide media on the matter.
Nepal’s authorities unveiled its new political map with the inclusion of Lipulek, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas inside its territory in Could 2020 throughout the federal government led by Oli. It was later endorsed by the Parliament unanimously. After that, the federal government changed the previous map utilized in all of the official paperwork with the brand new map regardless of India’s objection.
“This synthetic enlargement of claims isn’t primarily based on historic truth or proof and isn’t tenable. It’s also violative of our present understanding to carry talks on excellent boundary points,” India’s Exterior Affairs Ministry stated at the moment.
Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar final week expressed discontent over the Nepal authorities’s resolution to problem the brand new notes.
Jaishankar stated that it isn’t going to alter the state of affairs on the bottom.
Nepal shares a border of over 1,850 km with 5 Indian states – Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
