India-Nepal-Gorkha Recruitment
India would suffer no "practical impact" by discontinuing the recruitment of Nepali nationalists in Indian Army's Gorkha regiments, said Shyam Saran.

Speaking at a talk programme organised at Indian International Center, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister and former Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Shyam Saran, Wednesday made it clear that India is ready to stop Gorkha recruitment if the Nepal Government wants it to, ANI reported here.

Saran, however, added that the recruitment has been continued with because of the "special relations" enjoyed by India and Nepal.

Stopping the recruitment of all Nepali nationalists in Gorkha regiments in India and UK features at the top of the priority list of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) party which has emerged as the biggest party after the Constituent Assembly (CA) election.

Some 40,000 Nepalese are currently serving in the Indian Gorkha regiments.