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No India visit till blockade is lifted: PM
Prime Minister KP Oli has said he will not visit India until the blockade imposed for more than two months is lifted.Devendra Bhattarai
Prime Minister KP Oli has said he will not visit India until the blockade imposed for more than two months is lifted.
The PM has a formal invitation to visit New Delhi.
“PM Oli told Delhi’s emissary who came bearing a formal invitation that ‘I will visit India only after all the border points are opened and if that is not possible I need a firm commitment that the blockade will be lifted the day after I land in India,’” said CPN-UML Secretary Pradeep Gyawali, who is currently in New Delhi to attend a workshop at the invitation of the Communist Party of India. Gyawali had arrived here earlier too as Oli’s special envoy prior to his election as the PM.
“The PM remains focused on addressing the difficulties faced by the people of Nepal,” Gyawali said. There is a stark contradiction between Delhi’s stated “neighbourhood first” policy and its current behaviour towards Nepal, Gyawali told Nepal watchers he met here that the Indian leadership “must review its policy”.