Why Maoist leader Prachanda’s return as Nepal PM is unlikely to affect energy ties with India


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New Delhi: The return of Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal as Prime Minister of Nepal is ‘unlikely’ to affect Kathmandu’s energy relationship with New Delhi, ThePrint has learnt. Dahal, who still goes by his nom de guerre ‘Prachanda’, was sworn in as the Nepal PM for the third time Monday after his party, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-MC), exited an alliance with the Nepali Congress and joined forces with the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML). Some experts, however, claim that the CPN-UML chairman and former PM, K. P. Sharma Oli, is in the driver’s seat as...