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Nepal's Maoists, rebel groups pose threat to India, says Jaswant Singh |
Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh has said
that the rise of Maoists in Nepal and the rebel groups taking sanctuary there
pose a threat to India. Singh said the developments marked a "strategic error"
on part of New Delhi. "There are 109 armed groups operating. 109 armed groups
in Terai of Nepal. Those armed groups are operating in Nepal. It cannot leave
India unaffected. I believe that permitting the ascendancy, as it were, of the
Maoists in Nepal, is as significant a strategic error by the government as much
as strategic error, whether of the rise of influence of People's Republic of China
or the unrest in Jammu and Kashmir," said Singh, speaking at a book launch in
New Delhi. A study says Nepal's Terai plains have witnessed a proliferation of
armed militant groups and criminal gangs. According to the Informal Sector Service
Centre (INSEC), a Kathmandu-based human rights organisation, there are currently
more than 100-armed groups in Terai. Meanwhile, taking at dig at his former party,
the BJP, for ousting him for writing a book - 'Jinnah: India-Partition Independence,'-,
Singh said that writing is an extremely hazardous profession. "Writing a book
seems to have become an extremely hazardous business. I am sure you would examine
the possibility of all the perils that face you in writing books in India these
days," said Singh. Singh was expelled from the BJP in August for writing a book
sympathetic to Mohammed Ali Jinnah. |
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