Limpiyadhura News

Crucial bilateral talks between India, Nepal to be held this week. Nepal PM says recent high-level visits from India and China were goodwill ones. Nepalese FM Pradeep Gyawali is scheduled to visit New Delhi on Jan 14.

Nepalese Parliament recently adopted a new political map of the country showing these areas as part of its own territory, a move strongly opposed by India.

Nepal’s President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Thursday ratified the Constitution Amendment Bill, shortly after it was unanimously endorsed by the National Assembly for changing the political map of Nepal to include Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura.

Vinesh Kumar, a 22-year-old Indian farmer from Bihar's Sitamarhi was killed and two others were injured in indiscriminate firing by the Nepal police at the India-Nepal border on June 12. 

The Lower House of Nepal's Parliament on Saturday unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to update the country's new political map, laying claim over the strategically key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura along the border with India.

Reacting to the map, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that the unilateral action is not based on historical facts and evidence. 

On May 18, the Nepal Cabinet endorsed a new controversial map of the country claiming Lipulekh, Kalapani, Limpiyadhura under the territories of Nepal.

Last week Nepali President addressing the joint session of the Parliament said new maps of the country will be published that will show all areas it considers as its own.