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Opinion | India’s Nepal Election Tossup: Gagan Thapa’s Predictably Vs Balen Shah’s Promise

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06.03.2026

Opinion | India’s Nepal Election Tossup: Gagan Thapa’s Predictably Vs Balen Shah’s Promise

The 2015-’16 Madhesi blockade happened, with an irresponsible mainstream and social media arousing deep anti-India feelings.

On August 3, 2014, during his historic address to the Constituent Assembly in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Nepal to create a Constitution “rishi mann se", or with the foresight and vision of a sage.

Much water has flowed under the bridge since.

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The 2015-’16 Madhesi blockade happened, with an irresponsible mainstream and social media arousing deep anti-India feelings.

In 2000, the Lipulekh dispute erupted, with Nepal publishing a new map including Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limpiyadhura amid a surge in misinformation and disinformation.

Around the same time, then Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli claimed Shri Ram was born in Nepal. Strange and ironic for a communist politician to claim a Hindu deity, but the intention was to rile up India.

Oli himself was unceremoniously kicked out in a Gen Z-led regime change operation last year. An interim caretaker government led by former Chief Justice Sudha Karki got the........

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