{"id":2365,"date":"2009-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/nepal-india-relations-open-secret-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T00:00:00","slug":"nepal-india-relations-open-secret-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/05\/nepal-india-relations-open-secret-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"NEPAL-INDIA RELATIONS: OPEN SECRET DIPLOMACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting<\/p>\n<p>The United Maoist-led Government resigned as of May 4, 2009 and its resignation has been accepted.&nbsp; Almost three weeks back, the senior UML leader, Madhav Kumar Nepal, who failed to win people&rsquo;s trust in two constituencies he challenged in the last Constituent Assembly (CA) election, was unanimously elected as the second Prime Minister of republican Nepal on May 23, 2009. <\/p>\n<p>The largest party with 238 members out of 601, the united Maoists, boycotted the election, protesting against the move of the president.&nbsp; The ceremonial president reinstated the CoAS to let him continue in his office despite the executive decision.&nbsp; India has now become the butt of controversy among all players &#8211; political parties, media, civil society, etc. &#8211; both in and outside the land. This article attempts to address India&rsquo;s role in Nepal, its next-door neighbor in the central Himalayas. &nbsp;<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sosref.org.np\/my_file\/108.pdf\" ><br \/>CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL &ndash; CONFLICT STUDY CENTER, NEPAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting The United Maoist-led Government resigned as of May 4, 2009 and its resignation has been accepted.&nbsp; Almost three weeks back, the senior UML leader, Madhav Kumar Nepal, who failed to win people&rsquo;s trust in two constituencies he challenged in the last Constituent Assembly (CA) election, was unanimously elected as the second Prime Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}