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Nepal’s internal matter: Pranab

NEW DELHI: India has adopted a hands-off policy relating to developments in Nepal where Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) has quit the interim government over rejection of their demand for abolition of monarchy.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday described the developments as “internal issues of Nepal to be resolved by Nepal itself.”

He expressed the hope that all concerned would implement previous understandings that underpin Nepal’s peaceful transition and that differences would be resolved democratically.

The Union Home Ministry has asked all the five States bordering Nepal and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) which guards the India-Nepal border to take all preventive steps and remain alert in view of the political developments in the Himalayan nation.

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