By IANS,
New Delhi: India Thursday dismissed remarks attributed to former Nepal prime minister Prachanda that New Delhi and Washington were teaming up to launch anti-China activities through the Nepali territory.
“These allegations are completely baseless and false,” the spokesperson of the external affairs ministry told reporters here.
He was responding to a question on a report in a Nepali daily which quoted Prachanda as saying that India and the US had a plan to launch anti-China activities, including even an attack on China, using the Nepali territory.
“I had to quit as prime minister as my party was opposed to letting our territory be used against China,” Prachanda said while addressing a training programme of the Maoist cadres Wednesday, according to the Kathmandu-based Rajdhani daily.
Prachanda has been quoted as saying that a senior Indian professor revealed this plan to him.
Prachanda’s alleged anti-India remarks come ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to New Delhi Aug 18.