PM Narendra Modi Holds Talks With Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba In Delhi

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba held delegation-level talks at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Saturday.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said, “Comprehensive talks on our multi-faceted partnership are on the agenda.”

This is Prime Minister Deuba’s first bilateral foreign visit since assuming office for the fifth time in July last year. Deuba was also accompanied by a high-level delegation. Coming to India at the invitation of PM Modi.

The Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi, said that a comprehensive dialogue between India and Nepal’s multi-faceted partnership is on the agenda during the meeting.

“Working together to take India-Nepal relations to newer heights. The meeting between PM @narendramodi and PM @SherBDeuba of Nepal gets underway. Wide-ranging talks on our multifaceted partnership are on the agenda,” Bagchi tweeted.

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Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister of Nepal paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat in New Delhi. Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Nepal met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla in the national capital.

Sher Bahadur Deuba is a veteran politician of the Nepali Congress, whose political career spans more than seven decades. This is Deuba’s fifth term as PM. His first term was from September 1995 to March 1997.

He has visited India several times, both when in and out of power. This will be his fifth visit to India as PM, with the last visit being in August 2018. The previous three visits took place in 2004, 2002 and 1996

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