Kathmandu: The NOIDA veteran Comrade Prachanda has categorically stated that if the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is linked with the Indo-Pacific strategy (IPS) as precondition then Nepal is not obliged to ratify the MCC under any conditions and that if the two are separated from each other then Nepal as a nation-state may think of the Parliamentary ratification of the MCC offer made by the United States of America.

This the Delhi sheltered former Maoists leader Comrade Prachanda said Friday, December 20, 2019, at a parliamentary committee meeting which is currently on a debate whether or not to ratify the US proposal-the MCC.

Likewise, senior NCP leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is presumed to be comfortably close to the Indian establishment since early 90s too said that if the MCC proposal of the USA is aimed against any third country then such a proposal could not be accepted by Nepal.

“We shall accept any proposal which is related with prosperity and the development of the nation”, said Mr. Nepal hinting that the US needs to convince the highest authorities in Nepal that the MCC was really in the larger interest of Nepal and that the MCC was not aimed against any third country.

The Nepal Communist government fears that the ratification of the MCC may hit Nepal-China relations hard.

Vocal Communist leaders like Bhim Rawal and Dev Gurung too have said that the MCC must not be ratified from the Nepali parliament.

By the way, Comrade Prachanda has already visited the US with his family members last year.

He was then close to the US and now, as the politics has it, he has inched closer to President Xi Jinping.

On October 12 this year, President Xi granted an audience to the former Delhi man-Prachanda