Nepal’s PM will visit MP’s Mahakaleshwar temple, CM Shivraj will attend dinner

New Delhi: Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal “Prachanda” will be on a two-day visit to Madhya Pradesh from Friday, during which he will visit the famous Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain and the solid waste management plant operated by the local body in Indore. , officials said. He informed that the Prime Minister of Nepal is scheduled to reach Indore airport at around 10 am, after which he will visit the Mahakaleshwar temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas (main worship places of Lord Shiva) in the country, at around 11.15 am. After visiting the temple, he will return to Indore, where he will meet Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel at around 4 pm.

Officials said that after the meeting, he would visit the solid waste management plant operated by the Indore Municipal Corporation. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will organize a dinner in honor of Prachanda in Indore at 7.30 pm.

On Saturday, the Nepali PM will visit the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys campuses at an IT Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Indore and leave for New Delhi later in the day. Chouhan chaired a meeting with senior officials via video-conferencing in Indore on Thursday to review preparations for the visit of the 68-year-old Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) leader who will assume office in December 2022. .

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Sources said the Chief Minister directed officials to make adequate arrangements for Prachanda’s visit to Parliament during which cultural programs would also be organised. Prachanda arrived in India on Wednesday afternoon on a four-day official visit, accompanied by a high-level delegation. This is the first bilateral foreign visit of the 68-year-old Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) leader after assuming the top post in December 2022.

On Thursday, the PM of Nepal met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The two leaders vowed to resolve the complex border dispute in a spirit of friendship, even as the two sides signed several key agreements, including New Delhi’s increase in electricity imports from the neighboring country to 10,000 MW over the next 10 years. Did it

After the meeting, PM Modi said that India will continue to try to take relations with Nepal to the heights of the Himalayas. In his media statement, Modi said that he and Prachanda took several important decisions to make the partnership between the two countries a “super hit” in the future. The PM of Nepal also met President Draupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday.

Nepal is important to India in the context of its overall strategic interests in the region, and leaders of both countries have often noted the centuries-old “roti-beti” relationship, which refers to cross-border marriages between people of the two countries. Is. countries. The country shares a border of over 1,850 km with five Indian states of Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The land-locked nation depends heavily on India for the transport of goods and services and its access to the sea is through India.