India’s Green Signal to Republic in Nepal
Issue 47, November 25, 2007
The state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of November 23, 2007 reported that on November 22, 2007, talking to the RSS representative in Pokhara, CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda said that India agreed to declare Nepal a republic. According to the newspaper, Prachanda had had talks with former Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Sharan about the republic on the telephone and Shyam Sharan told him that India gave the approval for making Nepal a republic.