{"id":29807,"date":"2020-07-16T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29807"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:44:40","slug":"nepali-pm-oli-comment-on-ram-and-ayodhya-outrageous-says-former-mp-karan-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29807","title":{"rendered":"Nepali PM Oli\u2019s comment on Ram and Ayodhya \u2018outrageous\u2019, says former MP Karan Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The statement could have been dismissed as the gymnastics of a distorted mind, except that it comes fast on the heels of Oli\u2019s unfortunate unilateral action regarding a territorial dispute with India, he says<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli is trying to do everything to alienate his country from India, former Member of Parliament Karan Singh has said in a personal statement. Dr. Singh, who is also related to the Nepal royals, said Mr. Oli\u2019s claim about Lord Ram\u2019s supposed Nepalese origin was \u2018bizarre\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis outrageous statement will have hurt the sentiments of a billion Hindus living not only in India and Nepal but around the world. The statement could have been dismissed as the gymnastics of a distorted mind, except that it comes fast on the heels of Oli\u2019s unfortunate unilateral action regarding a territorial dispute with India,\u201d said Dr. Singh, who had in the past served as an envoy of India to Nepal to deal with sensitive issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Oli on Monday had remarked that Ramchandra, the lead protagonist of the epic Ramayana, was born in a village near the border town of Birgunj and had described India&#8217;s Ayodhya as part of a \u2018fake\u2019 Indian narrative. In response, Dr. Singh said the statement showed that Mr. Oli was \u201ctrying to do whatever he can, even going to the extent of an absurd statement regarding Ayodhya and Sri Ram, to widen the distance between India and Nepal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Singh described, the current official policy of Nepal as \u2018ominous\u2019 and urged the people on both sides to \u201cdo whatever possible to recreate the friendly age-old ties between our two countries.\u201d He had earlier argued that the territorial dispute over Kalapani could have been avoided if India had activated diplomatic channels on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/nepali-pm-olis-comment-on-ram-and-ayodhya-outrageous-says-former-mp-karan-singh\/article32099174.ece?homepage=true\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statement could have been dismissed as the gymnastics of a distorted mind, except that it comes fast on the heels of Oli\u2019s unfortunate unilateral action regarding a territorial dispute with India, he says Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli is trying to do everything to alienate his country from India, former Member of Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}