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New Delhi: Nepal’s new ruling party chief, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chairman Rabi Lamichhane met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (June 3), capping a series of high-level engagements with India’s political and security leadership during a visit that comes at a delicate moment in Nepal-India relations.

Lamichhane, whose party leads Nepal’s government under Prime Minister Balendra Shah, also held meetings on Tuesday with external affairs minister S. Jaishankar, home minister Amit Shah, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Nabin.

Modi, posting on X after the meeting, said he was “delighted” to meet the RSP chairman and welcomed his desire to work together for a prosperous future. “Nepal is a priority partner under our Neighbourhood First policy and we look forward to collaborating with the new government to elevate the special and multifaceted relationship between our two countries to greater heights,” he wrote. 

Lamichhane, in a post of his own, described an “hour-long conversation” and said he shared Modi’s vision of “development diplomacy” moving beyond “past constraints”, built around “shared........

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