PM Modi congratulates Nepal's new PM KP Oli, invites him to India

Kathmandu: PM Narendra Modi has congratulated Nepal’s new Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and invited him to visit India.

In a telephone call at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday to the CPN-UML chairman who was sworn in as the 41st Prime Minister of Nepal, Modi expressed his best wishes for the successful tenure of Oli’s premiership.

Modi also pledged to provide all possible cooperation for the development of Nepal, according to a statement issued by Oli’s private



secretariat.

This is the third telephonic conversation between the two leaders after Oli’s party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), emerged as the largest party in Nepal’s latest elections.

During the conversation, Oli told his Indian counterpart that his prime focus would be on the development and prosperity of the country. He also pledged to further consolidate friendship with India in the coming days, the statement said.