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President Yadav’s India Visit
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On February 15, 2010, President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav left Kathmandu for New Delhi, India for a four-day visit at the invitation of Indian President Pratibha Patil. First President of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal has broken two traditions: first he did away with the tradition of five girls dressed up in traditional attire and offering marigold garlands to the head of state at the time of departure for a foreign state visit as a symbol of good luck, and second the tradition of declaring the national holiday on the day of the head of state leaving the country for a foreign visit. Thus the first President has set a new tradition of new Nepal.
Indian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Pranita Kaur has received President Yadav at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi, India. On the evening of the first day of the Nepalese President’s India visit, Parliamentary Leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Lal Krishna Advani has met with the President at Taj Palace Hotel where President Yadav is staying during his India visit. Similarly, Chairman of the Indian Samajbadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav also has met with the President at the Taj Palace Hotel.
After the meeting with the Nepalese president both the Indian political leaders of two different parties have said to the reporters that they have wished the Nepalese President for writing a new constitution on time and then for institutionalizing stable democracy in Nepal.
Speaking to the anchor of the state-run Radio Nepal in the morning program called ‘antar sambad’ on February 15, 2010, the political advisor to the President has said that the current visit of the President to India is entirely a good will visit, and it has nothing to do with the signing of memorandums of understanding, as these are the business of the government of Nepal and the India; and the President is visiting India with a 27-memebr entourage.
