An unofficial blockade of fuel and essential supplies to Nepal has forced illegal black markets to spring up around Kathmandu.The blockade was prompted by neighbouring India’s opposition to Nepal’s new constitution, as Al Jazeera’s Subina Shrestha reports.Ever since late September, when Nepal adopted a controversial new constitution, supplies of fuel from neighbouring India have been almost entirely cut off, severely disrupting life in a country yet to recover from April’s devastating earthquake. Kathmandu, stops at a friend’s place to pick up a 65-litre drum with which to collect supplies of Nepal’s most scarce commodity: fuel.New Delhi claims its truckers cannot risk driving through Nepal’s restive plains, where residents are protesting against a constitution they see as curbing their political influence. But Nepal accuses India whose citizens have close social, cultural and economic ties with the disgruntled Nepali plains people of imposing an unofficial blockade to force change to the constitution. Amid the stand-off, enterprising Nepalis such as Mr Bogati have forged alternative supply chains, creating a fuel black market to keep their own businesses from grinding to a halt. “Fuel is too much of a problem,” says Mr Bogati, a father of two, as he plonks the drum in the passenger seat of his battered Maruti 800 car -