November 6, 2024
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New Delhi, June 26 (HS) Since the push back from India to the Chinese aggression in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, Beijing has been using its diplomatic heft through its regional allies like Pakistan, Nepal and now Bhutan to put pressure on New Delhi.

Bhutan government has stopped releasing channel water for irrigation along its border with India near Assam, affecting thousands of farmers in 25 villages of the region.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has invested heavily in the countries neighboring India, resulting in unprecedented dependence of South Asia on China.

Besides, Islamabad has also been hassling New Delhi with persistent ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. On the Eastern front, Nepal has stressed its claim to the Indian territory of Lipulekh.

With Nepal’s new political map showing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as its territories, the country has started deploying armed police force for the first time at most of the 15 border outposts along the Indo-Nepal border in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh and adjacent areas.

“The remaining 13 border outposts, which are located in Nepal’s villages such as Dakot, Syanku, Brahamdeo, Khate Bagad, Kakada, Diknkchi, Ukku, Baku, Rautara and Balra, are set up temporarily,” said one of the persons, who did not wish to be identified.

Like Bhutan, Nepal government too had stopped the water supply through water channel that was providing water for irrigation purposes in the fields adjoining the Indo-Nepal border.

Following the development, the farmers staged a protest against the blocking of water which flows from a man-made irrigation channel ”Dong” for growing paddy. The channel has been used by farmers of Bhutan and India in the region since 1953. But the locals believe that after Indo-China scuffle, it has been stopped.

The withholding of water by the Bhutanese government has affected people of 25 villages. According to media reports, the flow of the irrigation water has been stopped as part of Bhutan”s efforts to combat the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which originated in China”s Wuhan city in Hubei province.