• Crippling blockade over - Kathmandu, Madhesis must now come closer

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    CRIPPLING BLOCKADE OVER

    Editorial
    The Pioneer
    http://www.dailypioneer.com
    Wednesday, February 10, 2016

    Kathmandu, Madhesis must now come closer

    It's good that the United Democratic Madhesi Front has
    finally called off the blockade at the border with
    India, clearing the way for the free movement of
    vehicles carrying essential products, including fuel,
    from India into Nepal. Besides ending the months of
    misery that the people had had to undergo as a result of
    the blockade, when essential material was in short-
    supply, the UDMF's decision creates the right
    environment for the much-anticipated visit of Nepalese
    Prime Minister KPS Oli to India sometime later this
    month. Mr Oli had earlier hinted that his trip to the
    neighbouring country should ideally come with the
    lifting of the blockade. This may have been a face-
    saving tactic given that many elements in his Government
    had taken a hardline position on the matter. To that
    extent, the Madhesi leadership must be complimented for
    removing an obstacle in the re-establishment of cordial
    relations between New Delhi and Kathmandu which had
    reached a peak in the early months of Prime Minister
    Narendra Modi's tenure. It must be said here, though,
    that India wasn't responsible, which many in Kathmandu's
    ruling dispensation believe, for the disruption in
    movement of goods from this side of the border; Nepal's
    mishandling of the agitation the Madhesis had launched
    to oppose certain provisions of the new Constitution had
    led to the crisis. The issue still remains, since the
    Madhesi groups comprising the Front have not called off
    the protests -- they have only allowed the agitation not
    to affect the movement of goods from India into Nepal. . . .

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