By Xinhua,
Kathmandu : Senior leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M), the ruling party, said Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, may review ties between Nepal and India, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Sunday.
Mohan Baidhya known as “Kiran”, chief of the CPN-M organizational department, said the government had all rights to sign in the bilateral and multilateral treaties, as it is the elected body.
However, he also said the present government, like previous ones, would not sign in any agreement without doing proper homework.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, in his visit to India that started from Sunday, would candidly raise the issue of replacing the 1950 Treaty with India, he said while speaking at the Reporters’ Club Nepal in Kathmandu on Saturday. “The Treaty should be reviewed for mutual benefit of the two countries, as it was unequal,” he added.
The Prime Minister would raise the agenda of border encroachment, bilateral trade, problems created by the Saptakoshi floods and other issues, Kiran added.
On Saturday, Finance Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, another senior CPN-M leader, said the India visit by Prime Minister Prachanda would further consolidate and strengthen relations between Nepal and India.
Dr. Bhattarai said the Prime Minister’s visit was not meant to ask for some favors from India, and stressed on the need to put an end to such a tradition.
An effort will be made during the visit to review not only the 1950 treaty but all unequal ties with India, and the visit would be cordial, he added.