India has strategic interests and it engages with all three key parties and their current leaders - Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, who is the current PM (Maoists), KP Sharma Oli (CPN-UML) and Sher Bahadur Deuba (Nepali Congress). Oli, an old India confidant, however, gave India a tough time as PM, while the entry of Deuba as PM gave India a degree of comfort. Deuba ushered in a period of key development projects.
