On 27 February 2022, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact was ratified by the Nepal Parliament following a motion proposed by the Prime Minister of the coalition government, Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of Nepali Congress Party and a staunch supporter of the MCC. The MCC was created by the United States government in 2004 as a development agency. However, US national security strategy papers suggest its primary aim is to further the US national security agenda.
Four decades ago, thirty-two Telugu people became martyrs in the fight to build a people’s steel plant in the Indian city of Visakhapatnam.