The government has sounded an alert in states along the Indo-Nepal border and also asked the para-military force to step up vigilance on the 1,751-km boundary in the wake of sudden political developments in the neighbouring country.
Nepal plunged into a political crisis on Tuesday with the Maoists pulling out of the coalition Koirala government, dealing a blow to the fragile peace process after their demand for immediate abolition of monarchy was rejected.
In the backdrop of the Nepal crisis, India hoped that all political differences in neighbouring country would be solved amicable and they would continue implementing their earlier understanding.
??These are internal issues of Nepal which are to be resolved by Nepal itself,?? external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee told mediapersons on the Nepal situation on his way back from S Korea. He said that the common goal must remain to enable the people of Nepal to choose their own future and the manner of their governance.
Four Maoists ministers walked out of the coalition, accusing Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and his Nepali Congress of trying to save unpopular King Gyanendra. They also pledged to start a new ?people’s revolt? for the abolition of monarchy.
Though Maoist supremo Prachanda held hectic parleys with Koirala and leaders of two other major parties in the ruling alliance on Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to reach a compromise, the effort failed as Koirala, backed by the international community, refused to abolish monarchy before the election. Koirala also refused to change the mixed electoral system chosen for the November election.
