MK Nepal leaving for India today
KATHMANDU, JUL 24 - Former Prime Minister and CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal is leaving for New Delhi on a-five day visit on Wednesday on the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh .
The visit is a part of the Indian government's policy to expand talks and consultations with the Nepali political parties to further strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries. A three-member delegation led by Nepal incluses UML Secretary General Ishwor Pokhrel and member of the party's International Relations Department, Rajan Bhattarai.
"We are meeting Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Thursday afternoon and Prime Minister Singh in the evening," Bhattarai said.
Ahead of his visit, Nepal met with President Ram Baran Yadav on Tuesday and discussed a wide range of bilateral issues to be raised with the Indian side.
In a bid to expand fraternal relations with Indian communist parties, the visiting delegation will hold a meeting with leftist parties, namely CPI (M), CPI, Forward Bloc and CPI (ML). Nepal will deliver a lecture on recent political developments in Nepal and the upcoming Constituent Assembly elections at the Indian Council of World Affairs.
He will also meet Minister for External Affair Salman Khurshid and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday. Khurshid will host a lunch in honour of the Nepali delegation at Hyderabad House the same day.
Nepal is scheduled to visit Nalanda University in Bihar and deliver a lecture. Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar will host a lunch to the Nepali delegation.
As Nepal has already decided to go to the CA polls on November 19, India is engaging with the Nepali political fraternity to press them hold the elections at any cost.
Earlier, the Indian establishment had hosted two high-profile visits. Chairman of UCPN (Maoist) and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leader of Nepali Congress and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba went to New Delhi separately and held meetings with senior Indian politicians and officials.
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