Modi scales Himalayan barrier

August 04, 2014 13:44

On a day he may have reformatted India-Nepal ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi nudged the Himalayan nation to a giant leap in the baby steps it has been taking towards republican democracy.

"We do not wish to tell you what to do or to interfere in your work,' he told a packed Nepali Constituent Assembly (CA) this afternoon. "But we wish to applaud your imagination of an inclusive, federal, democratic and republican (FDR) Nepal of which all sections of Nepalis can feel a part, a vibrant bouquet with all the divergent aromas of this great country of yours.' Read more

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