Leader of India’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Sudhindra Bhadoria has said India should have confined its role to suggestions and concerns’ rather than reacting to the way it has.

 He said that the current ties between Nepal and India have hit a low point in the wake of Indian government’s move to impose unofficial blockade against Nepal.

Bhadoria said that it was not appropriate from a humanitarian perspective to block the supply of fuel and medicine, among other essential commodities, to a landlocked country.

“The problems faced by the people of a landlocked country is not going to end by issuing a statement of not imposing a blockade,” said the influential BSP leader, who has good relations with the Nepali leaders.

“Nepali people should decide the nature and roadmap of its democratisation process,” he said.

He added it is impossible to go for entirely new process to draft another constitution as the new constitution has already been adopted.

Thapa: India is interferring in internal affairs

Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPP-N) Chairman Kamal Thapa has accused India of interfering in Nepal’s internal affairs by imposing undeclared blockade at various customs points with the backing of some political parties and communities.

He told journalists at in Kavre on Thursday that there should be a prime minister level talks between Nepal and India to resolve the crisis since the roles played by the Foreign Ministry and the Nepali mission in New Delhi did not play out well. The diplomatic way of ending the blockade has failed, the RPP-N chairman claimed. He also said that the government should address the genuine demands of Madhes and initiate talks with the Indian authorities to mend the strain in relations between the two countries.