Nepal, June 3 -- Three days after Prime Minister Balendra Shah's dramatic statement in Parliament about Nepal also occupying Indian territory, his party's chair Rabi Lamichhane met in New Delhi with Indian leader Narendra Modi on Wednesday.

The RSP Chair had earlier been feted with rose petals, dancing and singing at the headquarters of Modi's BJP party in New Delhi, and he has since met India's Home Minister Amit Shah and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.

Lamichhane's visit comes at a time when India-Nepal relations have been buffeted by what has been seen in Delhi as impulsive and erratic decisions by Prime Minister Shah: bringing up the Limpiyadhura-Kalapani-Lipu Lek territorial dispute, taxing Nepalis returning with petty purchases fr...