DURGA LAL KC/KANTIPUR

Thousands of people from villages bordering India - Rajpur, Bela, Koilabas and Gobardiha in Dang district ? have this week been displaced by encroachment from the South Block. Over 2,000 Nepalis have fled their homes in the last week.

The displaced are living in ramshackle shelters in Satbariya VDC - one of the most distressing aspects of border encroachment. Every so often Indian border security forces shift border pillars and chase away Nepalis, who have fled their homes fearing persecution and sexual harassment. Those abducted by Indian border security forces
haven't returned home.

Many believe Madhav Kumar Nepal's appointment as PM was planned by India. Indeed he has failed to mention the encroachment or the incidents of rapes and mass evacuation. Nor has the government provided any relief packages for the displaced. Nepali Congress and UML have even been consulting with the Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood about choosing ministers to make up the new cabinet.

If this government wants to disprove the allegations of it being pro India it has to ask the neighbour to pull the security forces out from the border areas.

But what can we expect from a government formed against the people's will? The encroachment in Kalapani, Susta, Maheshpur, Pashupatinagar, Bara and now in Dang amounts to an invasion.