Kalistani Major History

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April 4913

RNP Claims Committee given more time, packed off to examine Kalistan

The Raktavani National Party's 12 member Claims Committee has belatedly reported back to annual conference. In February 4911, the committee had been established to explore whether the Greater Malivian Empire's territorial claims should be extended to Pontesi, Beluzia, Luthori, Rutania, Ikradon, Kundrati, Endralon, Likaton and the Telamonese island of Suðureyja.

According to well-placed sources, a majority of the committee wanted to use their report to recommend extending the territorial claim to all of those nations, but they were pressured to refrain from doing so by the party leadership, particularly Prime Minister Ravi Ranganekary and Foreign Minister Vishnu Satavelekar. Instead, they have therefore issued a report concluding that "the committee should be given more time to conduct its research", and also requesting that "the committee should also investigate whether the territorial claim should be extended to include Kalistan".

Conference voted by 277 to 223 votes to accept the report and its recommendations. The Prime Minister is reportedly pleased to have kicked the issue in to the long grass again for the moment, but unhappy that his party is talking about making a territorial claim on yet another nation.

Kamala Ghoshal, one of the committee members, commented:

During the course of the committee's research we came across mountains and mountains of evidence for Raktavani (OOC: Indian) culture, and particularly Ananti (OOC: Punjabi) culture in Kalistan. We also found loads of evidence for the practice of Geraja (OOC: Hinduism). Kalistan must have been a part of our Empire in my personal opinion, and I think it's terrible how foreign invaders have taken over Kalistan and driven our people out. So yes, we should put a claim on Kalistan. I don't think the rest of the world will mind too much. Kalistan is not even in the World Congress.

Foreign Minister Vishnu Satavelekar has written to his Kalistan counterpart to assure Kalistan that Malivia "has no territorial claim on Kalistan and has no plans to make one". Nevertheless, at the time of writing, four of the committee members, including Kamala Ghoshal, are on their way to Kalistan to conduct their "research".