What is the problem of India 🇮🇳, why they think this nonsense always

BP Koirala never offered Nepal to India. It was a drunken King Tribhuvan who did (at a party hosted in his honor by Nehru in New Delhi) and since the king was drunk at the time, Nehru simply laughed it off and never mentioned the topic again. Neither did the king after he became sober. So please get your facts right before asking such a misleading question. I think you’ve been listening to too much royalist (rajabadi) propaganda. BP’s younger brother Girija Prasad Koirala (or GP Koirala) was just 26 years old in 1951 and only a mid-level leader of Nepali Congress at the time. So, he couldn’t have offered Nepal to Nehru.

Look at this timeline. BP Koirala was elected prime minister in 1959 and ousted by King Mahendra in an army coup in 1961. In the year you have mentioned (1951), he was Home Minister for just 9 months in a government led by the overthrown hereditary Rana Prime Minister Mohan Shamsher JB Rana. The 104-year old Rana family rule had just ended and the king’s royal executive power had just been restored, thanks largely to Nehru.

Also, had Nehru wanted to take Nepal, he could have easily done so. All he had to do was send the Indian Army into Nepal and Nepal would have capitulated without a fight or minimal resistance. Most Nepalis outside of Kathmandu valley at the time were illiterates and had no sense of nationalism. Nepalis of my grandfather’s generation didn’t even know that they were Nepalis (to them Kathmandu was Nepal and Nepal was Kathmandu and they mostly used Indian coins and rupees) and they would’t have cared whether they were ruled from Kathmandu or New Delhi. But Nehru didn’t want to take Nepal for his own reasons - perhaps he had other more important things to do - and not because King Mahendra saved Nepal from big bad wolf India (according to royalist propaganda). That’s why we are still an independent country.

Edit:

To Indian readers, BP Koirala was Nepal’s first democratically elected prime minister. He, along with many Nepali political leaders of the time (who were fighting against the totalitarian Rana family rule), took part in the Indian independence movement and personally hobnobbed with Nehru, Gandhi and many other Indian leaders of the time. He became prime minister in 1959 after his party (Nepali Congress) won the country’s first general election. But he was removed from office by King Mahendra (Tribhuvan’s son and successor) in an army coup just two years after being elected. After he was released from prison, he lived most of this life in exile in India and led the struggle for democracy from there. I am sure you have all heard of his granddaughter (from his eldest son). Her name is Manisha Koirala

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