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Briefing Of Prachanda’s India Visit
Briefing Of Prachanda’s India Visit
KTM Metro Reporter
September 10, 2018
Kathmandu: One of the two chairmen of NCP-NCP: Prachanda had been in India for four days from September 6-9, 2018, and had had talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, other high officials and political leaders of the ruling and opposition parties and swapped ideas and views, and shared the political status and development in Nepal with the Indian dignitaries; the following things he has said as published in “gorkhapatra” on September 10, 2018.
Speaking to the reporters at the international airport upon arrival in Kathmandu on September 9, 2018, Chairman Prachanda said that his visit to India had been successful that would be helpful to the government.
He said that his visit was centered on creating the positive environment between the two countries, and it also played a constructive role in enforcing the agreements reached between the two countries in the past.
The objective of the visit was to make the development work constructive and effective, and his talks had been mainly focused on large projects such as the reconstruction of the quakes-hit structures, tourism, hydropower, and postal highways giving the special priority to those projects.
In the course of talks and discussions with all level of leaders and groups, all of them have expressed their interest in the political change that has brought the economic development in Nepal; and with all the political leaders and eminent folks the discussions he had held about the prosperity in Nepal, and their feedbacks had been very encouraging to him, Prachanda said.
While having the talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they have talked about the relations between China and India, Prachanda said. Up until four hundred years ago, the China-India economic relation was at the high level; however, it has been declining since then; and currently, talks have been going on among the two countries to take it to the high level again, Prachanda quoted Modi as saying. In addition, Modi told him about the talks Modi had held with the Chinese president in his latest visit to China, Prachanda said.
Prachanda also said that he had urged Modi to receive the report the Nepal-India eminent people’s groups have prepared, and once the report is received then it will pave the way for resolving the boundary problems between Nepal and India because the report has included the well-studied boundary topic.
Concerning the non-participation of the military exercises the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sector Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was holding in India, Prachanda said that he did not have any talks about it.
Prachanda has said that the change in the cabinet is not possible; however, the prime minister’s statement on this matter is the official statement. Prime minister Oli has said that there won’t be any change in the cabinet; it is the rumor the folks willing to destabilize the country have spread.
Concerning the supplementary budget, Prachanda has said that the government would submit it as required, as complaints about the low senior citizen allowance, and some other complaints have been, the government is mulling over to submit the supplementary budget; that is the prerogative of the government.
Source: gorkhapatra, September 10, 2018
