A visit by a Nepali Prime Minister to India, or the absence of such a visit carry perceptional meanings in Nepal. No visit means a lack of recognition or reduced cooperation in bilateral dealings. A visit means intense public scrutiny in Nepal of whether there has been any sell-out or compromise on national interest. KP Oli, after series of barbed comments against India both as Prime Minister in waiting and after taking over in October 2015, will embark on six-day visit to India, beginning on Friday with a clear directive from Parliament that he will not sign any agreement compromising the `national interest’ but with the discretion to decide what constitutes the `national interest’. Oli is not someone Delhi likes. He led the initiative to apply the brakes on Delhi’s influence in Nepal politics, including a say in the Constitution making process over the past 10 years through a four-party agreement signed by top leaders of four parties—Nepali Congress, the Oli-led Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist, the Maoists and the Madhesi Forum Loktantrik
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