Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former Maoist guerrilla who was appointed on December 25 as prime minister of Nepal for a third time, tweeted the next day to commemorate the birth anniversary of former communist dictator Mao Zedong.
“I extend my best wishes to Comrade Mao Zedong, the revered leader of the international proletariat, on his 130th birth anniversary,” the tweet in Nepalese read.