Kathmandu, May 4
Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi is paying a two-day state visit to Nepal on May 11 and 12. His visit will
begin from Janakpur, the capital of Province No. 2.
The Indian Prime
Minister is scheduled to visit the Muktinath Temple in Mustang district and
attend civic receptions to be organised in his honour by the Kathmandu
Metropolitan City and Janakpur Sub-Metropolitan City in Kathmandu and Janakpur,
respectively. He will perform worship at the Janaki Temple on May 11 and at the
Muktinath Temple on May 12.
The Indian Prime
Minister will be accorded a ceremonial welcome at Tundikhel in Kathmandu on May
11. He will also receive a guard of honour there.
During his visit,
Indian PM Modi will call on President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Vice-President
Nanda Bahadur Pun, and will hold official talks with Prime Minister K.P. Sharma
Oli, exchanging views on matters of mutual interest, on May 11.
Both the Prime
Ministers will jointly lay the foundation stone of the Arun-3 hydropower project.
Minister for Foreign
Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali will call on the Indian Prime Minister, and
Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN-Maoist Centre chairman Pushpa
Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and leaders of the Madhes-based parties will also call
on Modi.
This will be Modi’s
third visit to Nepal as Indian Prime Minister in five years. He had visited
Nepal twice in 2014.
He is visiting Nepal at
the invitation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. He will be accompanied by
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval, Secretary of External
Affairs Vijay Keshav Gokhle, Northern Division Chief at the Ministry of
External Affairs Sudhakar Dalela and other high ranking officials.
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