India accepts funding Nepal Maoists to gain favor: WikiLeaks

At
a meeting held between the Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and a
high ranking US official, Richard Holbrooke January 18, 2010, the
Indian foreign secretary during a two hour long working luncheon had
accepted that Indian establishment had funded the Maoists' rebellion in
Nepal and that eventually became counterproductive to India.

WikiLeaks
has revealed that the US special representative to Pakistan and
Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke was told by the Indian Foreign Secretary
Nirupama Rao that the strategy to fund Taliban Militants to gain their
favor would see similar fate to that of India's strategy in having
funded the Maoists in Nepal.

The
detail of the Rao-Holbrooke conversation was later forwarded by the US
ambassador in New Delhi to the US government that the WikiLeaks has
made public.

India thus stands exposed.

More such revelations are awaited which will shed light on how Nepal-India relations took a nose dive during the Royal regime.

In
the meantime, the Unified Maoists' Party spokesperson Dina Nath Sharma
talking to Kantipur Daily dated December 4, 2010, refuting the
allegation says, "There is no truth that we had received financial
support from India."

"We
held discussions on political matters…they asked us to reject the
presence of UNMIN….they said they will support us…but, we favored the
UN, thus UNMIN is right here".

"Yes,
to lure others by making various lucrative offers has become the
hallmark of Indian tradition", he says and adds "We rejected their
offer."

Sharma
also advises the Indian establishment to seek political solution-not
technical solutions, to problems in Jammu/Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangladesh
and Nepal.

However, Sharma doesn't deny that they were not having intimate contacts with the Indian regime.

WikiLeaks first jolt. The earth is yet to shake.

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