CPM backs renegotiating India-Nepal treaty

CPM backed renegotiation of Indo-Nepal Peace and Friendship Treaty and said there should be no treaty which is unequal.

The CPI(M), a key outside supporter of UPA government, on Tuesday backed the demand for renegotiation of Indo-Nepal Peace and Friendship Treaty and said there should be no treaty which is unequal.

If there were any areas in the Indo-Nepal Peace and Friendship Treaty which needed to be renogotiated it should be done, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said on Tuesday.

“Yes, I think that demand has to be considered. Earlier also when the Indo-Nepal treaty was reviewed we had a detailed position,” he told a press conference in Kolkata after the party’s politburo meeting.

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“We have always said that big countries or small countries, it does not mean we should have treaty which will be unequal,” he said.

Karat was replying to a question on the demand by the CPN (Maoist) in Nepal to scrap certain provisions of the 1950 Indo-Nepal treaty.

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