India must now explain to the world why it does nurture very fundamentalist, feudalist and de-humanizing forces tagged as political parties. The world has not been able to know why thousands of Dalits, known as so-called untouchables are tortured or killed in rural India every year. No one in the world does know why hundreds of Indian innocent women are killed in the name of dowry.
Just constitutional and paper commitments cannot prove the democratic nature of a country. We call India the largest democracy. But the realities there are different. Every fellow human being has the right to speak about the gross human rights violations going on in India. Because such realities affect the world politics and trends. Especially, South Asian neighbors will have to suffer a lot because of the generalization of criminal trends in India.
A democratic nation never imagines of interfering with other nations home affairs. Sovereignty is a key component as far is independence is concerned. Intentionally interfering with other nations’ sovereignty is neither democratic in nature nor compatible with the basic norms of international relations.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has violated the basic norms of international norms on the one hand and it has undermined the very essence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on the other. Neither India as a whole nor Nepal as a whole has sensed this gross violation. The BJP, a fundamentalist, communalist party that does want to annihilate other faith communities in South Asia, has recently issued its anti-human rights verdict of not accepting the existence of other communities in Nepal where the formal end of feudalist rule has just been declared by the recently elected constituent assembly heading towards restructuring Nepal through pluralist and inclusive political exercises.
As Nepal has, as per the human rights essence, decided to go for religious secularism, the BJP has given a sign of contributing to instability in Nepal by mobilizing its Nepal-based units in favor of Hinduist empire. The BJP said that it could not accept the former Maoist insurgents as the leading one among the major political forces since Maoists have some ideological similarities to Indian Naxalites. It has labeled the emergence of Maoists as the largest political force in Nepal as “not a good sign” for India. This shows the BJP’s prejudices against changes in Nepal. What the BJP has failed to see is the positive impact of Nepal’s peace process on Indian politics. They are making plans to resist changes in Nepal just because a new force is going to lead Nepal.
It is Nepalis’ choice. They have elected Maoists as the leading force in Nepal because the Nepalis want to institutionalize progressive peace in the country by utilizing the potentialities that the former rebels have. As the BJP has seriously objected to the elected force trying to lead the next government in Nepal, it is a serious humiliation of the Nepalis’ democratic choice.
Moreover, the BJP has urged New Delhi to polarize against the new force. This is an obvious threat to Nepal’s sovereignty. However, Nepal’s political parties have not clarified their own position on national sovereignty issues.
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