Nepal’s National Assembly endorses new map incorporating Indian territories

Nepal's National Assembly on Thursday (June 18) unanimously endorsed Constitution Amendment Bill to update country's map incorporating Indian territories. The upper house of Nepal's parliament passed the new Map Amendment Bill (Coat of Arms) proposal with all the 57 members present voting in its favour.

On Sunday, Nepal’s Parliament had endorsed a proposal to update the country’s political map that includes three strategically key areas of India.

On Saturday (June 13), India had reacted strongly after lower house of Nepal Parliament had passed the bill to redraw the political map of the country showing Indian territories as its own. Responding to the development, India had said that “this artificial enlargement of claims is not tenable.”