Nepal’s Prachanda on Gujarat visit

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Former Prime Minister of Nepal and chairman of  the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPNM), Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as ‘Prachanda’ is on Gujarat visit.

Prachanda arrived at Bhuj airport in Kutch district of Gujarat on Saturday with his wife Sita Dahal,  Anilkumar Pathak, Shivbabu Khakuri, Goverment of India’s under secretary Suchitra Kishor and liason officer Rohit for two days visit to study the post earthquake rehabilitation and reconstruction works done here after year 2001. Prachanda intends to utilise the knowledge gained here in quake-hit Nepal.

On first day of his Kutch visit, Prachanda watched four presentations given by state officials on post-quake reconstruction works in Kutch.

Today he is scheduled to visit Bhimasar, Vardhman nagar, RTO relocation site, GK general hospital, Bhuj gamtal area,Sahyognagar and Ravalvadi relocation site.

A Nepalese politician Prachanda led a guerrillawar against the government and later served as Prime Minister of Nepal from 2008 to 2009.

Prachanda before coming to.Gujarat met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi. In this meeting Modi reiterated India’s commitment to fully support Nepal in letter andspirit in the reconstruction efforts following the massive devastation caused by a 7.9 earthquake on April 25 this year and a major 7.3 aftershock on May 12.

At a meeting, Prachanda thanked the Prime Minister for Indian assistance in the aftermath of the two powerful earthquakes, including the pledge of $ 1 billion announced at the donors’ conference in Kathmandu on June 25. He also briefed Mr Modi on the Constitution drafting process in Nepal. 

-DeshGujarat