” Venugopal said he had been to Nepal to advise the President twice before the new Constitution came into force. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said: “India and Nepal have a spiritual connection also. Guru Gorakhnath has spiritually impacted Nepal a lot”.
Addressing the joint session of the newly elected parliament on Friday, Bhandari said, "The economic condition of the nation is at a complicated turn and we all know about it and are worried. We cannot achieve success until we find immediate, short and long-term solutions. Though silver linings are seen in the economic situation we are not in a condition where we can be assured about it would go in the long run. The problem of monetary liquidity, lack of enough resources for investments, and some external reasons have made the production sector weaker. With the debilitated economic progress, increasing inflation, and widening international trade deficit, we should be serious about enhancing the capacity of the production sector to address the situation thus created".
The PMLN and its allies, instead of obliging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insafs demand of dissolving the National Assembly and holding fresh polls, declared that the elections to both the provincial assemblies should also be held once the federal governments tenure completes in August.Subsequently, the governors of both provinces declined to give dates for holding polls in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.