Nepal releases new political map showing Lipulekh and Kalapani as part of its territory

New Delhi: The Nepal authorities on Wednesday unveiled a brand new political map of the nation that depicts Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as a part of Nepalese territory amid a diplomatic row with India.

The transfer got here little greater than six months after India printed new maps of the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh that confirmed Kalapani as a part of Uttarakhand state.

The new map was launched by land administration minister Padma Kumari Aryal at a operate in Kathmandu attended by political leaders and officers. The three territories have been proven as a part of Byas rural municipality in Darchula district of Sudurpaschim province.

Aryal stated she hoped India will take Nepal’s choice to publish the brand new map in a “positive way”.

There was no fast response from Indian officers.

Nepal’s council of ministers had authorized the map displaying Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as a part of Nepalese territory throughout a gathering chaired by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday.

“The map will come into use immediately…The areas of Gunji, Navi and Kuti, near Kalapani, which had been left out in earlier maps, are also included in the new map,” Aryal was quoted as saying by The Kathmandu Post.

Unnamed Nepalese officers have been quoted by the Post as saying that the nation’s complete space has elevated from 147,181 sq km to 147,516 sq km after the addition of “disputed land that is currently occupied by India”.

The diplomatic row started on May eight after defence minister Rajnath Singh opened an 80-km street that ends at Lipulekh Pass on the border with China. The street was constructed in order that pilgrims going to Kailash-Mansarovar within the Tibet Autonomous Region can keep away from harmful high-altitude routes via Sikkim and Nepal.

Nepal’s international ministry summoned the Indian envoy final week to protest in opposition to the development of the street. New Delhi has rejected Kathmandu’s protest, saying the Lipulekh area is “completely within the territory of India” and that each side might resolve such boundary points via diplomatic dialogue.

While addressing Nepal’s Parliament on Tuesday, Oli stated the choice to incorporate the three territories within the map of Nepal was made after India inaugurated “a road link through Nepali territory”. He additionally contended that folks coming from India “through illegal channels” have been spreading the Coronavirus in Nepal.

India and Nepal share a 1,800-km open border. Nepal claims all territories east of the Kali river, together with Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh, below the Treaty of Sugauli that it signed with the erstwhile British administration in 1816.