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Have Happy Holidays Mr. President In India
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 27, 2011: President Ram Baran Yadav has left Kathmandu today for a 10-day official visit to India, and has reached Kolkatta. He does not need to worry about the politics in Nepal, as leaders of the three major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML will take care of it talking to each other but not compromising on anything and not coming to a common understanding.
The leaders of these three parties have not been able to build a consensus on forming a new government even within the extended time period for forming a consensus government. So, the president has asked them to form a government elected by majority votes. The parliamentary secretariat has set Feb 3 for holding the election to a new prime minister following the majority vote procedures.
Even if they elect a new prime minister s/he can wait for another few days until the president comes back home for taking the oath of office because they have already wasted eight months for doing useless exercises of electing a new prime minister. So, to waste another few days is the matter of trifles for them.
Minister for Federal Affairs and Constituent Assembly Minendra Rijal and some senior officials have accompanied the president for keeping him amused when he is not busy with the ceremonies and meeting with counterpart and other high-profile officials and politicians in India.
Our President Yadav is the graduate of Calcutta Medical College (CMC). So, he will be the chief guest at the convocation of the CMC. Calcutta Medical College is celebrating its 177th Foundation Day.
He will visit Andhra Pradesh in south India to offer worship at the famed Tirupati temple on January 30 and then will be in Delhi until February 3. He will meet with his Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil. President Yadav will enjoy the lavish banquet his counterpart will host in his honor. Doctors at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi will check on his health.
President Yadav will hold talks with high-profile Indian politicians such as Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Defense Minister A.K. Antony, and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, and will give an audience to leaders such as Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley of the opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha respectively.
Our President Yadav is also the alumnus of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. He did his MD in General Medicine at this institute in 1985. So, he needs to participate in the convocation of the institute, too.
Nepalis and Indians have anticipated that the officials of both the countries avail the president’s visit for exchanging views and holding talks on the matters of mutual interest and concern following the tradition of regular high-level visits of the dignitaries of the two countries. The president is visiting India not long after the Indian Foreign Secretary Rao has visited Kathmandu and met with him.
