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Nepal’s ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chairperson Rabi Lamichanne connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called the neighbouring state a “priority partner”.
The gathering came a time aft Mr. Lamichhane called connected External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed improvement and information partnerships betwixt the 2 countries.
The meetings came adjacent arsenic authoritative sources present informed that Nepal’s Foreign Minister, Shisir Khanal, is expected to get successful India this week.
“Delighted to conscionable the Chairman of the Rastriya Swatantra Party of Nepal Mr. Rabi Lamichhane. I invited and afloat stock his tendency to enactment intimately unneurotic for a shared and prosperous future. Nepal is simply a precedence spouse nether our Neighbourhood First argumentation and we look guardant to collaborating with the caller authorities to elevate the peculiar and multifaceted narration betwixt our 2 countries to greater heights,” Mr. Modi said successful a societal media post, sharing photographs of the meeting, which was attended by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Mr. Jaishankar, and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.
Mr. Lamichhane said the hour-long gathering with Mr. Modi was a “great delight” and pledged to enactment for “development diplomacy”.
“By focusing connected shared civilizational bonds, integer corridors, and seamless connectivity, we tin genuinely physique a concern defined by advancement and communal trust. RSP looks guardant to translating these possibilities into world for radical of Nepal and India – for our shared prosperity,” helium said successful a societal media post.
Mr. Lamichhane was accompanied by his spouse Nikita Poudel Lamichhane, the Embassy of Nepal Chargé d’affaires Surendra Thapa, RSP associated wide caput and Member of Parliament (MP) Bipin Acharya, and Deepak Bohora, RSP MP.
The Embassy of Nepal, successful a societal media post, said the gathering covered “digital corridors and connectivity”.
The lukewarm invited extended to Mr. Lamichhane astatine the Indira Gandhi International Airport connected Monday and the consequent top-level meetings person taken spot against the backdrop of the aboriginal days of the Prime Minister Balen Shah-led government, which came to powerfulness successful March and attracted attraction for introducing customs duties connected imported Indian goods worthy much than 100 Nepalese rupees. This was followed by a reignition of the Kalapani-Limpiyadhura-Lipulek borderline dispute, which connected Tuesday drew a effect from the External Affairs Ministry that negated the relation of 3rd parties successful Nepal-India borderline issues. Mr. Lamichhane’s sojourn is truthful being viewed arsenic an effort to support the ties connected a creaseless track.
Official sources confirmed to The Hindu that Foreign Minister Khanal is scheduled to question to India this week. Mr. Khanal was earlier expected to question to Delhi to be the gathering of the International Big Cats Alliance that was cancelled due to the fact that of the Ebola outbreak successful Africa.
On Tuesday (June 2, 2026), Mr. Shah congratulated Mr. Lamichhane connected the RSP’s triumph successful the Nepal predetermination and conveyed “firm resoluteness to enactment unneurotic for enhancing the peculiar ties betwixt India and Nepal”.
Mr. Lamichhane’s sojourn has drawn sizeable attraction here, arsenic helium is the archetypal high-profile visitant from Nepal since the enactment of the caller authorities nether Prime Minister Balendra Shah, who has been prioritising home reforms and economical issues.
Mr. Balendra Shah grabbed attraction soon aft taking complaint by adopting a broad argumentation of not gathering immoderate visiting diplomats oregon bureaucrats. It is understood that a sojourn by Foreign Secretary Misri, which was expected to instrumentality spot successful May, could not beryllium scheduled due to the fact that the Nepal Prime Minister stuck to his presumption of not holding peculiar meetings with visiting diplomats.
