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But thats exactly what greeted Nepal Prime Minister (PM) Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda on his return to Kathmandu after a four-day official visit to India..

New Delhis gift of 15 Murrah buffalo bulls led a Nepali lawmaker to say that Prachanda returned from Delhi riding buffaloes, resulting in a fracas in Parliament.T)..

Nepali Opposition actors such as the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Rashtriya Swatantra Party, and their loyalists, called the visit underwhelming and accused Prachanda of getting the President to pass a contentious citizenship bill on the eve of his visit to please New Delhi..

In an interaction with Nepali editors in Delhi, he suggested that the land swap could resolve the issue, with one option that Nepal be given land access to Bangladesh via a thin sliver of territory connecting Northeast India to the mainland, colloquially known as the Chickens Neck or the Siliguri corridor. ..

Opposing India has long remained a mainstay of Nepali politics, and the reactions to Prachandas visit are no different, especially since he raised the stakes of the game..

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