Nepalese Prez to visit India soon

KATHMANDU: Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav, with close Indian ties, may soon arrive in New Delhi for his first official trip abroad after assuming office.
       
Officials here said the President will visit India soon but other details of his trip are yet to be worked out.
 
"The President's visit is in the pipeline but we are yet to work out the date, which should be both convenient to the President as well as to India," an official at the President's office said, on Saturday.
       
President Pratibha Patil had earlier extended a friendly invitation to Yadav to visit India. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who visited Nepal last month had handed over the invitation letter to President Yadav.
       
The Nepal government will first decide about the visit and inform India, the official said, adding, it will be premature to reveal the dates now.
       
Yadav, the Nepali Congress leader who belongs to the Madhesi community, defeated veteran Madhesi leader and Maoist candidate Ram Raja Prasad Singh in the presidential race to become the first president of the Republic of Nepal after the Himalayan country embraced democracy.
       
The Nepal President has strong links with India where he studied medicine for over eight years. After completing his MBBS from Calcutta Medical College, Yadav did his MD from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh.