The landlocked country of Nepal led by its communist Prime Minister KP Oli is on a hara-kiri spree. Heavily inebriated under Chinese ‘communist’ influence, the Himalayan neighbor of India is looking to sabotage the centuries-old relationship with India that traverses religious, cultural, and familial ties.
Now the Nepalese PM has asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to not make ‘threatening’ remarks against Nepal.
KP Oli, well and truly, knows the hold Yogi Adityanath has in Nepal and therefore he is scared that if Yogi assumes an active role from the Indian side in engaging with Nepal in the wake of recent controversies then it could very well spell doom for Oli and his relations with China. Most importantly, the common Nepalese citizens who do not want any friction with India would also slip away from Oli’s finger if Yogi is involved.
On Wednesday, Oli was quoted by media reports as saying, “Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath-Ji said some things about Nepal. His remarks were not appropriate or legitimate. The leadership of the central government [in India] should tell him not to speak on issues that he is not responsible for. He should also be told that his comments threatening Nepal will be condemned,”
Oli is scared of Yogi Adityanath
Oli’s scaredy comments came after Yogi Adityanath ever so slightly gave Nepal a side-eye by evoking the horrors the Chinese had undertaken on Tibet by saying, “Nepal should think of the consequences and remember what happened to Tibet.”
Yogi in an interview had also iterated that both countries shared cultural, historical, and ancient history links and that Nepal should remember this.
The fact that KP Oli has been rattled by Yogi’s statement which, to begin with, is not threatening one bit says more about Oli’s state of mind and the fear of Yogi in the communists of Nepal.
TFI had reported last month that in order to counter anti-India communists of Nepal, India should use its Yogi card as the communists fear him there.
Yogi and his connection with Nepal
CM Yogi Adityanath and his Gorakhnath Mutt have always enjoyed a special connection and substantial following with the Hindus in Nepal and its erstwhile royal family.
The erstwhile royal family of Nepal are Gorkhas who trace their origin to Guru Gorakshanath or Gorakhnath, the founder of the Nath monastic movement in the Himalayan belt.
King Birendra who was assassinated by his own son in 2001 was a symbol of tradition for this Mutt and for many years launched the Makar Sankranti festival in Nepal by visiting the Mutt.
Birendra looked up to Mahant Avaidyanath (mentor of Adityanath), former religious and temporal head of the Gorakhnath monastery, as his guru. Interestingly, Yogi Adityanath succeeded as the head of the Gorakhpur Mutt in 2014.
It is a fact out in the open that communists and secularists run amuck with tails between their legs when Yogi is around. The Hindu nationalist Yogi has made his political career by wearing his religion on his sleeve proudly.
It’s one of the reasons why pseudo-seculars and communists have a heartburn every time they look at Yogi and see how far he has come.
The latest comment by KP Oli is triggered by paranoia and the fear that if Yogi steps into the confrontation zone with Nepal then he will sway the common Nepalese citizen to his tune.
The communist government of Nepal fears Yogi so much that when he visited the country in 2018, they had started protesting against his presence. Talk about living rent-free in someone’s mind.
Of late, Nepal has been showing signs that under the communist regime, the former Hindu kingdom is fast turning into a client state of China. The government is blatantly controlled by the CCP which is further enabled by the communists and Maoists within Nepal.
Oli, short-sighted by his misplaced beliefs about communism is playing into the hands of Beijing. It is not in the interest of Nepal to become China’s client state, especially because nearly 6 million Nepalese citizens live and work in India, bringing huge remittances for the Himalayan country.
Yogi has not even jumped in the fray yet and Oli is already on his toes, therefore one does not need to be a political pundit to anticipate what would happen if Yogi actually came around and started confronting Nepal. Oli is frightened.