RSP President Lamichhane returns home completing five-day official India visit

Kathmandu: President of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and former Deputy Prime Minister, Rabi Lamichhane, returned home on Friday evening after concluding his five-day official visit to India.

The RSP President had travelled to India at the invitation of the national chair of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nitin Nabin.

Before he departed from New Delhi, Nepal’s Charge D’affaires to India, Dr Surendra Thapa, and the BJP’s Foreign Affairs Department chief, Dr Bijay Chauthaiwale, were at New Delhi-based Indira Gandhi International Airport to see him off, according to the Embassy of Nepal, New Delhi.

During the visit, the RSP Chairperson held separate bilateral meetings with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of External Affairs, Dr S Jaishankar, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chair Nabin.

The discussions focused on strengthening bilateral relations and matters of mutual interest. Lamichhane’s entourage included his spouse, Nikita Paudel, RSP joint general secretary and House of Representatives (HoR) member Bipin Kumar Acharya, RSP secretariat member and HoR member Deepak Bohara, and his private secretary Pradip Acharya.

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