India is cautiously optimistic about its relations with Nepal because the ruling Nepali Congress, led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, seems set to emerge as the only largest social gathering in parliament after the lately held elections.

The Nepali Congress and its allies just like the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) have already began discussions to kind the brand new authorities in Kathmandu. Deuba had separate conferences with CPN (Maoist Centre) chief, Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.okay.a. Prachanda, and the CPN (Unified Socialist), Madhav Nepal, at his official residence in Baluwatar in Kathmandu on Monday. Deuba and Prachanda had earlier met on Saturday.

New Delhi’s envoy to Kathmandu, Naveen Srivastava, is in contact with the prime minister of Nepal in addition to the CPN (Maoist Centre) chief, sources mentioned.

The polling for 165 of the 275 seats within the House of Representatives (Pratinidhi Sabha) underneath the first-past-the-post system was held on November 20. The remaining 110 members will probably be elected by means of proportional illustration.

The Nepali Congress to this point received 53 of the 165 seats and thus emerged as the only largest social gathering, whereas its companions CPN (Maoist Centre) bagged 17 seats, CPN-Unified Socialist 10, Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party 4 and Rastriya Janamorcha 1.

Beijing, nevertheless, has not but given up hope for putting in a authorities led by the Communist Party of Nepal (United-Marxist-Leninist), which, led by former Prime Minister Okay P Sharma Oli, secured 42 seats, whereas its companions Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) received seven seats every.

The diplomats on the Embassy of China in Kathmandu are in contact with a number of key political leaders of Nepal as a way to break the ruling coalition and provides beginning to a brand new alliance with the CPN (UML) at its core.

New Delhi’s relations with Kathmandu had suffered a setback after the erstwhile Okay P Sharma Oli’s authorities had ratcheted up the Nepal-India dispute over 400 sq km of land on the Lipulekh-Kalapani-Limpiyadhura space in 2020 – at a time when the Indian Army had been resisting the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s aggressive strikes in jap Ladakh.

The relations between India and Nepal nevertheless returned on observe after Deuba succeeded Oli.