Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to visit India today
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The visit comes after three years of deep acrimony between India and Oli and about six months of an intense effort by the two to patch up.
Prime Minister of Nepal KP Sharma Oli is arriving New Delhi on Friday on a 3-day visit to India. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation.
Khagda Prasad Sharma Oli, who became the Prime Minister of Nepal for the second time in February this year after the Left Alliance swept the elections in November-December 2017, will make his first visit to India.
During the visit, Oli will call on President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and other ministers will also call on Nepalese Prime Minister.
Various issues including agriculture, energy, connectivity, trade and investment and reconstruction are likely to be discussed during the visit.
He will also interact with Indian businessmen, industrialists, intellectuals and meet people from Nepali community.
The 66-year-old leader is not known to be India-friendly now and experts on South Asian politics believe that New Delhi has a test on its hand now to tackle Nepal, an age-old friend which has shown a strong tendency to lean in favour of China of late.