After his return from India earlier this month, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ kept himself quite busy — justifying how successful his trip to the south was. In doing so, he even overemphasised the visit at times, just as Opposition parties dismissed it as “ritualistic”.
One of the much talked about aspects of the visit was the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to export up to 10,000 MW of electricity from Nepal to India over a period of 10 years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, too, made an announcement on June 1 to this effect during a joint press briefing following delegation-level talks. The MoU followed bilateral agreements on India building at least two hydropower plants in Nepal.
