MADHESIS OPPOSE NEW NEPAL RULE

MADHESIS OPPOSE NEW NEPAL RULE 

Nepal communist party’s Secretariat decided that it will support a seven-year waiting period before foreign women married to Nepali men can acquire Nepali citizenship

Nepal’s chief Opposition Nepal Congress, and leading figures of Nepal’s plains have opposed the planned changes in the existing citizenship rules 

Affect the families in Nepal’s plains also known as the Madhes region

Madheshi people: Used by academics for people of Indian ancestry residing in the Terai of Nepal

 

Since the late 1940s, the term 'Madhes' was used by politicians in the Nepal Terai to differentiate between interests of the people of the Terai and of the hills

In 1952, Nepal Citizenship Act entitled all those immigrants to obtain Nepali citizenship who had stayed in the country for at least five years

Citizenship Act of 1963 entitled immigrants to receive Nepali citizenship if they were able to read and write Nepali and engaged in business 

The term Madheshi became a widely recognised name for Nepali citizens with an Indian cultural background only after 1990

In 2006, the Nepal Citizenship Act: People born before 1990 and residing permanently in the country obtained the right to Nepali citizenship 

Constitution of Nepal 2015 contains provisions for a Nepali citizenship by naturalisation, which can be acquired by:  foreign women who are married to a Nepali man; children of a Nepali woman and a foreign man

Madheshi comprising various cultural groups such as Hindu caste groups, Muslims, Marwaris and indigenous people of the Terai

Madheshi people comprise Brahmin and Dalit caste groups as well as ethnic groups such as Maithils, Bhojpuri and Bajjika speaking people

Many of these groups share cultural traditions, educational and family ties with people living south of the international border in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal

 

Culture of Madeshi people is complex and diverse

Madheshi people speak Bengali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Urdu and Hindi languages

Tharu people and Pahari people living in the Terai do not consider themselves as Madheshi