{"id":31630,"date":"2018-10-27T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31630"},"modified":"2018-10-27T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:29:55","slug":"sushma-to-engage-new-nepal-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sushma-to-engage-new-nepal-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushma to engage new Nepal govt\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sushma-swaraj-to-engage-new-nepal-government\/article22581312.ece\">Sushma to engage new Nepal govt<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a bid to revive ties with Nepal, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Kathmandu from February 1 to 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The visit comes weeks after Nepal elected a Leftist coalition, which won the first historic poll under the new Constitution of the country<\/li>\n<li>The visit by Ms. Swaraj will be the first big diplomatic engagement by the newly elected rulers of Kathmandu.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly, only last week Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reached out to the elected Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli wherein both the leaders had invited each other for a visit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Expanding partnership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visit is in keeping with the tradition of regular high-level political exchanges between India and Nepal, and reflects the expanding bilateral partnership and the importance that the two countries attach to further strengthening it across diverse sectors,\u201d a release from the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cold ties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ties between Mr. Oli and Mr. Modi had been cold since the former was the Prime Minister during the months-long economic blockade between 2015-16.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Oli fought the election through a coalition with former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal \u2018Prachanda\u2019 though he is yet to be formally sworn in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushma to engage new Nepal govt\u00a0 Context In a bid to revive ties with Nepal, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Kathmandu from February 1 to 2 Backdrop The visit comes weeks after Nepal elected a Leftist coalition, which won the first historic poll under the new Constitution of the country The visit by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sushma-to-engage-new-nepal-govt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sushma to engage new Nepal govt\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704690884},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}