Kathmandu, 28 May. Nepal Army has rejected the reports in Indian media as baseless and ill-intended propaganda.
It said that its attention has been drawn to a commentary titled ‘In a huge setback to PM Oli, Nepal’s new political map hits a Road block’ printed in The Hindustan Times (May 27,2020) by Shishir Gupta and ‘Oli ordered Nepal Chief of Army to rebut Indian Army Chief’s remarks, the Nepalese General said ‘No thanks’ (May 28, 2020) by Akshay Narayan published in tfipost.com.
“These lengthy write up, woven with lies, innuendo and mischief. Nothing could be farther from truth than these writeups which claims that the Chief of the Nepali Army, Gen Purna Chandra Thapa refused to obey the instructions of Prime Minister to rebut the statement of Indian Army Chief Gen Manoj Mukund Navarane’s on Indo-Nepal Border dispute,” said the army in a statement on Thursday.
Nepali Army does function well within the parameters of the constitution, and maintains its glorious tradition of discipline, restrain and accountability and respect towards the highest executive office in the country, it said.
It also said that Nepali Army maintains that making unnecessary political statements or responding to the loaded queries from the media is not part of its job.
It maintained that Nepal’s institutional ties with any of its counterpart anywhere in the world is guided by well considered need of the time, reciprocity and not at the cost of country’s independence, sovereignty and the glorious values it stands for.
“Nepali Army regrets the reckless, mischievous and irresponsible write-up and its contents with scant respect to the truth and facts, to say the least,” it stated.
It has urged the readers, Nepali people in general and the media in particular, not to give any credence to the content of the Hindustan Times and tfipost.com. writeups which clearly is intended to undermine Nepali Army as an institution and its constitutional obligation.
