Dahal wants to visit India

KATHMANDU, March 9: UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Puspha Kamal Dahal has said that he wants to visit India once the new government is formed in the country.



"He (Dahal) expressed his desire to visit India after the formation of the new government," Foreign Affairs Chief of Bharatiya Janata Party Bijay Joli quoted Dahal as saying at an interaction program in the capital on Saturday. [break]



Joli added that Dahal has also been receiving invitations to visit China. "I have also been receiving invitations to visit China, but I will be visiting India first," Joli further quoted Dahal as saying.



The Indian leaders said that Dahal wanted to take the Indo-Nepal relations to new height.



A group of Indian leaders along with Joli who is in Nepal visit had met Dahal today morning.

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