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At a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the SAARC Interior Ministers’ Conference in Kathmandu, India raised the issue of China using community radio channels for anti-India propaganda. A top government official said Nepal agreed to crack down on the radio channels being aired primarily in the Terai region.
Union Home minister Rajnath Singh, who held meetings with Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and the country’s home minister Bamdev Gautam, is learnt to have raised the issue with them.
“I made it clear that India does not believe in expansionist policies and we have been assured of Nepal’s assistance in containing trans-border terrorism and other border related issues,” Singh told The Indian Express.
A senior official said that Nepal had been given a detailed case study of such channels in the past, but this was the first time that India had got an assurance of a crackdown.
“We have been raising these issues for the past three-four years at various platforms but it has been discussed by a visiting Home minister for the first time. The assurance has been given at a very high level and we expect things to move soon,” a senior government official said.