KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal’s prime minister said Sunday the cross-border flooding that swamped a large swath of northern India will be among issues discussed when he meets Indian leaders in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was to travel to the Indian capital later Sunday for his first visit since being elected last month.

India, which borders Nepal on three sides and has a major influence on the tiny Himalayan country’s political and economic affairs, voiced concern that Dahal had visited China first, Indian media said.

Dahal attended the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

More than 1.2 million people were driven from their homes in India’s impoverished Bihar state by flooding in mid August from the monsoon-swollen Kosi River, which flows from Nepal into India. It burst its banks on the Nepali side of the border and flowed into a channel it had abandoned a century earlier.

At least 48 people died on the India side from the flooding, but it is widely believed that the final toll will be much higher.