Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Saturday. The Prime Minister of Nepal arrived in New Delhi on Friday on a three-day visit, which is expected to bring new momentum to bilateral ties.
Sher Bahadur Deuba also met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla yesterday.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Deuba and PM Narendra Modi will hold extensive talks on Saturday. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is also expected to meet the visiting leader.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba to bilateral relations. A new opportunity to deepen the special ties of friendship and cooperation between our two countries,” Arindam Bagchi, Spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs, said in a tweet.
On the first day of his tour, Deuba reached the BJP headquarters and met the party’s national president JP Nadda. The Nepalese PM also paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat in the capital. Deuba will also visit Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, which is PM Modi’s parliamentary constituency.
This is Deuba’s first bilateral foreign visit after becoming prime minister for the fifth time in July last year after the political turmoil in Kathmandu. Deuba had visited India in each of his earlier four terms as Prime Minister of Nepal. His last visit to India as Prime Minister was in 2017.
“A grand welcome to a special friend. PM of Nepal @SherBDeuba arrived in India on an official visit from 01-03 April 2022. This is his first bilateral foreign visit after assuming office in July 2021,” tweeted Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs. Nepal is important in India’s context. The old “bread daughter” ties are noted.
The country shares a border of over 1,850 km with five Indian states – Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Land-locked Nepal relies heavily on India to transport goods and services.
Nepal’s access to the sea is through India, and it imports a major proportion of its needs from and through India. The Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1950 forms the basis of the special relationship between the two countries.
“The upcoming visit will provide an opportunity for both sides to review this comprehensive cooperative partnership and take it forward for the benefit of both peoples,” the foreign ministry said on Monday. Apart from official engagements in New Delhi, the Prime Minister will visit Varanasi in Nepal.
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