Overview
- Rabi Lamichhane led a senior Rastriya Swatantra Party delegation that was given a ceremonial welcome at the BJP headquarters and met BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday.
- Lamichhane held high-level engagements in New Delhi with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, with discussions stressing development partnerships and people-to-people ties.
- The BJP presented the visit as a party-to-party exchange under its 'Know BJP' initiative focused on organisational methods and youth outreach while saying formal policy and border issues remain the remit of government-to-government channels.
- The outreach follows the cancelled visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri to Kathmandu and Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s parliamentary remarks about mutual border encroachments, leaving the Kalapani–Lipulekh–Limpiyadhura dispute unresolved.
- The exchanges aim to preserve practical cooperation on trade, transit and connectivity and to engage Nepal’s new, youth-driven leadership, but any formal settlement on territorial claims will require direct government negotiations.