Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) President and former Deputy Prime Minister Rabi Lamichhane returned home on Friday evening after concluding his five-day official visit to India. 

The RSP President had left for India at the invitation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Nabin. 

Before his departure from New Delhi, Nepal's Charge D'affaires to India Dr Surendra Thapa, BJP's Foreign Affairs Department chief Dr Bijay Chauthaiwale were at New Delhi-based Indira Gandhi International Airport to see him off,  according to the Embassy of Nepal, New Delhi. 

During the visit, the RSP President held separate bilateral meetings with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chair Nabin. 

The discussions focused on strengthening bilateral relations and matters of mutual interests. 

Lamichhane's entourage included his spouse Nikita Paudel, RSP joint general secretary and House of Representatives (HoR) member Bipin Kumar Acharya, RSP secretariat member and HoR member Deepak Bohara, and his private secretary Pradip Acharya.