New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasised the importance of finding a durable solution based on consensus to Nepal’s political problems during a telephonic conversation with his Nepalese counterpart K.P. Oli.
Mr Oli called up Mr Modi and briefed him on the political developments in his country, days after the Nepalese Cabinet decided to amend the Constitution to address the key demands of Madhesis from the country’s Terai region over proportional representation and constituency delimitation.
“Mr Modi emphasised the importance of finding a durable solution to the political problems facing Nepal based on consensus or sahmati,” the ministry of external affairs (MEA) release in New Delhi said, adding that Nepalese Prime Minister “briefed him on the political developments in Nepal”.
According to the Nepalese premier’s press advisor Pramod Dahal, during the 20-minute conversation, Mr Modi invited Mr Oli to visit India. Mr Oli accepted the invitation and said he will pay an official visit to India soon after the situation is normalised, Dahal said, according to news agency reports from Kathmandu.
Mr Modi also extended his good wishes to the people of Nepal for the New Year 2016. Nepalese Prime Minister Oli would visit India before undertaking his trip to China, which was earlier supposed to be his maiden visit overseas, sources in the Nepal government said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also recalled that he had instructed the external affairs minister to ensure that medicines reach Nepal through airlifting to avoid their scarcity due to agitations there.
