New Delhi: Nepal’s former prime minister and head of the country’s largest party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said yesterday that his party had agreed that his country cannot prosper “without good relations with India”.
The decision taken at the party convention last month was an “important turning point of the party’s ideological point” and has “created a new basis and new relations with India”, said Prachanda, visiting India after four years.
The “Indian issue figured for the first time” at the party convention, he said.
The party “clearly criticised the narrow nationalism and feudal nationalism” of earlier thinking and “indicated progressive nationalism and through this we can create atmosphere where we can develop good relations...”
“Without good relations and understanding with India, we cannot prosper,” said Prachanda, adding that the three points were “very important and created new dynamics for the party”.
He said during his visit to China earlier in the month, the Chinese leadership had told him they “support” his decision “to have good relations with India”.
He also stressed on pushing forward economic development of his country which he said was in in the larger interests of both India and China.
The Maoist leader, who is on a four-day visit to India, floated his “vision” of a trilateral cooperation between India, China and Nepal, which he said “was not a distant dream”. IANS
