Nepal's India policy under communist government in Nepal

The evolution of a political party affects its foreign policy. There are different modes of thinking on organisational evolution, concerning relations between official aims and organisational behaviour. The normative approach regards that the goal of the party determines its mode of action. A party, in its formative phase, is undoubtedly treated as an instrument for the realisation of specific goals. In the course of its evolution which demands its involvement in exchange relations with most hetrogenous national and international environments, priority of the party is very likely to change from time to time. The Nepal Communist Party, Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML), popularly known as ML before it brought about the Marxist faction under its fold in January 1991, declared its foreign policy objective under the broader framework of Nepali "nationalism", directed against the structure of Nepali-India relations shaped by the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950. In about 18 years since the formation of the party, its role has changed from that of a revolutionary party professing Marxist line of one party dictatorship to that of the main opposition party after the restoration of multiparty democracy in 1990, to the ruling party after the general elections to parliament in November 1994. The formation of the UML government had stimulated Nepal's foreign policy, particularly in relations with India.