KATHMANDU, June 18: Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari today signed a Constitution amendment bill to update the country’s new political map which incorporated three strategically important Indian areas, hours after the Parliament approved it, a move that could severely hit the bilateral ties with New Delhi.
India has already termed as “untenable” the “artificial enlargement” of the territorial claims by Nepal after its Lower House of Parliament on Saturday unanimously approved the new political map of the country featuring Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas which India maintains belong to it.
Nepal last month released the revised political and administrative map of the country laying claim over the strategically important areas, more than six months after India published a new map in November 2019.
The bill was authenticated by President Bhandari today afternoon as per the Constitutional provision, according to a notice issued by her office.
Earlier in the day, the National Assembly, or the Upper House of the Nepalese Parliament, unanimously passed the Constitution amendment bill providing for the inclusion of the country’s new political map in its national emblem.
The bill to amend the Constitution to update the new map was tabled in the National Assembly, the Upper House on Sunday, a day after the House of Representatives unanimously endorsed it. (PTI)
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