Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh, the US Administration, the European Union, and Japan have welcomed Nepal’s Maoist ex-rebel commander Prachanda immediately after he was elected as the country’s first prime minister the abolition of the 240-year monarchy.
They congratulated him and expressed their belief that the bilateral relations would be better in his tenure.
Indian Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh said that he was eager to work with Prachanda to improve the Indo-Nepal relations. He expressed his interest in meeting Prachanda as soon as possible.
US, European Union and Japanese officials also expressed their support to Prachanda and believed that Nepal would be better under his dynamic leadership.
Prachanda, the Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist), with the help of two other parties, defeated the Nepali Congress prime ministerial candidate Sher Bahadur Deuba by 351 more votes.
Prachanda obtained 464 votes against the 113 votes secured by Sher Bahadur Deuba.
The Nepali Congress that ruled Nepal for many years did not want to join the national government under the former rebel leadership. The old and conservative party wanted to maintain its traditional rule, mostly opposed by the working class people of the country.
Many think Prachanda does not have an easy time as prime minister because Nepal has fallen into anarchy, ill-governance, all-pervasive corruption and criminalization of politics with political nexus with criminal gangs and networks).
However, should the nation go ahead with the responsibility of drafting a new federal republican constitution and bringing about qualitative approaches for the nation’s socio-economic transformation, the nation is likely to amaze the world within a decade.
The Nepalis are equally watchful against any foreign interference because of the country’s geopolitical sensitivity.