Prachanda meets Japan's LDP senior leader Nikai

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Kathmandu: CPN (Maoist Centre)'s Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' who is presently on the Japan visit held a meeting with Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) senior leader Toshihiro Nikai today. LDP is currently the ruling party in Japan.    
Nikai is the LDP's former general secretary, former economy, trade and industry minister and is the member in the House of Representatives. He is also the President of Nepal-Japan Parliamentary Committee. He was accompanied by other senior leaders in Japan during the meeting with the former Prime Minister of Nepal.    
The meeting focused on various aspects of Nepal-Japan relations, according to Dahal's secretariat.    
The two leaders discussed the ways for further consolidating the bilateral relations between the two neighbours. Besides, exchange of high-level visits between the two countries and the establishment of sisterly relations between cities in both countries were also discussed in the meeting.    
On the occasion, leader Dahal urged the Government of Japan to increase the scale of its assistance to Nepal's agriculture, tourism, hydropower and physical infrastructure development sectors.