KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Nepal Police have dismissed the recent claim of the Chief Minister (CM) of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis that the urban Naxalites from India held a meeting in Kathmandu in November to hatch a conspiracy to destabilize Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state governments of India.
Addressing the state assembly on Thursday, CM Fadnavis had claimed that the terrorist-labeled Naxalite group from India held a meeting in Kathmandu on November 15 with the target to topple the BJP-led state governments of India.
Spokesperson for Nepal Police Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Bishwa Adhikari told Republica that no such meeting took place in Nepal in November or at any other time.
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“If such a meeting of urban naxalites had taken place in Nepal, it would have surely appeared on the radar of Nepal Police’s intelligence,” he said, “Since, no such incident was reported by our intelligence, the said meeting never took place in Nepal, especially in Kathmandu.”
He added that Nepal Police has a special unit to address potential threats such as the Naxalite movement and that the special unit never detected any such threat in November.
According to SSP Adhikari, if the meeting had indeed taken place in Nepal, police intelligence would have detected the presence of Naxalites in Nepal and consequently neutralized the threat by rounding up such individuals.
“If we detect any activities taking place in Nepal with a malicious intent against our neighbors, we make it a top priority to stop the activity from taking place in the first place,” he informed Republica, “We extradite such anarchist factors back to their own country to face legal action accordingly.”
A senior official at the Nepal Police Headquarters dismissed CM Fadnavis' claim as a political stunt to divert the attention of his state legislators to a foreign issue.
“What the CM of Maharashtra said is a cheap political stunt to gain popularity in his state,” the source said, “He seems to be projecting an unsubstantiated threat from the outside to show that there are external elements that are trying to destabilize his government.”