Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress lawmaker Bhishma Raj Angdembe has said that sensitive issues like the Nepal-India border dispute should be resolved through diplomatic dialogue and not through anger and provocation.
Speaking at the meeting of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, lawmaker Angdembe said that the present political situation was unusual and all should be sensitive on the issue of national self-respect.
He said, “The opposition is expressing their dissatisfaction. Today’s current political situation is unusual. The world knows that Lipulekh is ours, Kalapani is ours and Limpiyadhura is ours. The world also knows that this parliament has passed the map of Nepal along with those territories. This issue has to be resolved through the diplomatic process, not through provocation and impulse, but through intense dialogue in a restrained manner. ’
Nepal has never been a colony of anyone and the brave Gorkhas have always lived a life of self-respect, he said. Quoting a popular song of late singer Gopal Yonzon, he talked about the national sentiment, self-respect and freedom consciousness of Nepalis.
“I am a citizen of a country that has never been a colony in history,” he said. I know that my country is a country of brave Gorkhas, which has never bowed down to anyone in the world. We have been listening to the song of Gopal Yonzon, a very melodious and very popular singer that we all have been listening to since childhood, which is also full of national sentiment. “My stomach does not fill my stomach with the bread I have snatched, the dhoti I ask for does not cover my shame, my fingers may fall down after choking, but these hands are not joined in front of anyone.” This chest is made of rocks… If I say this, perhaps our sensitivity towards the nation is scattered here. ’
Lawmaker Angdembe said that every child born from the womb of a Nepali mother would live with high self-respect. He also questioned the recent remarks by the Prime Minister on border and argued that it was not appropriate to make statements like the issue of border encroachment by a neighbouring country and Nepal as well.
“Every child born from the womb of Nepali mothers yesterday or in the future will live with self-respect on human heads,” he said. Not only Everest, they will live with self-respect like Mount Everest. If Gopal Yonzon was alive today, what would you have said after listening to the Prime Minister who proudly makes a public statement that our country has encroached on its neighbour’s border? He also encroached, we also encroached, what is the Prime Minister trying to say? Angdembe stressed on the need for resolving issues like the border issues through serious dialogue, mutual understanding and diplomatic process and not through emotional reactions or provocations.
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