KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has left for India to participate in the BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit, on Saturday morning.

Dahal is leading an 18-member delegation to the Outreach Summit that would be preceded by a Retreat Meeting of the leaders of BIMSTEC on October 16.

Prime Minister Dahal is also scheduled to address the Retreat and the Outreach Summit.

DPM and Minister for Home Affairs Bimalendra Nidhi, Ministers, High Ranking government officials, chiefs of security bodies and CPN (Maoist Centre) leaders were present at airport to bid farewell to PM Dahal.

A contingent of Nepal Army had offered a gun salute to the PM before his departure.

This is PM Dahal's second visit to India in his second premiership.

He would return home on October 17.