Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla in Delhi.
The Nepalese PM arrived in India today for a trip of three days to India, with senior officials and his wife, Dr. Arzu Deuba. The Nepalese Prime Minister is in India at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi.
The PM was in the early hours of today. Nepal PM had a meeting with Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) President JP Nadda at the party headquarters for a formal meeting.
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“Had a courtesy meeting with Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba today. India and Nepal are not just neighbours but are very close to each other even from religious, cultural, linguistic, and historical viewpoints,” Mr. Nadda declared.
The PM Deuba has been scheduled to have a meeting with PM Narendra Modi tomorrow at Hyderabad House in addition to other engagements.
Apart from official engagements in New Delhi, Nepal PM will also be visiting Varanasi within Uttar Pradesh. A statement to the press released by the MEA declared that India and Nepal have long-standing special bonds of cooperation and friendship.
The most recent Head of State or Head of Government visit to Nepal was in May 2019. Then, Prime Minister K P Oli visited India to witness the swearing-in ceremony for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Council of Ministers.
Before that, PM Modi was in Nepal in August 2018 to attend the fourth BIMSTEC Summit in Kathmandu, preceded by a state visit to Nepal in May 2018.
PM Modi has sent a congratulations note to Sher Bahadur Deuba shortly after he had won the Vote of Confidence in Nepal’s Parliament.
The message came to fruition with a felicitation telephone conversation on the 19th of July 2021. The meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Sher Bahadur Deuba was held on the 2nd of November 2021, amid COP 26 in Glasgow.
Deuba’s fifth term as the PM. Sher Bahadur is an experienced politician from the Nepali Congress with over seven years of political experience. His first term ran from September 1995 until March 1997.
He has been to India numerous times, both in and out of the office. This is his fifth trip to India as the PM, and the most recent visit took place in August of 2018. The prior three visits were in 2002, 2004, and 1996.
