Nepal former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa returning home after high-level meetings in Delhi

Nepal’s former Prime Minister and chairman of Rastriya Janashakti Party Surya Bahadur Thapa is returning home, Saturday after completing a week-long visit to New Delhi.

During his visit, Thapa held meetings with high-level leaders including Indian Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh, NDA chairperson and Congress (I) president Sonia Gandhi and Indian national security advisor N K Narayanan.

At a time, when Nepal plodding through a funny political quagmire Thapa’s India visit is viewed with interest back home.

Only few leaders from Nepal get to meet high profile politicians in India. Even Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala had not been able to meet Indian PM Singh during his New Delhi visit earlier, this year.
Moreover, Indian security advisor hardly meets anyone just for courtesy.

Although Thapa, considered an astute player of Nepali politics, has been relatively out of limelight lately, he has assumed the mantle of Nepal’s politics several times in the past.

Thapa started his political career during the Panchayat regime. He has become Prime Minister of Nepal at least four times, once or twice during the Panchayat regime, once as elected Prime Minister of a NC-erstwhile RPP coalition and once picked up by the erstwhile King Gyanendra Shah.

Coincidentally (or planned) another royalist leader Pashupati Shumsher JBR is also in India. He met with Indian foreign minister SM Krishna, yesterday.

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