India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Mar 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be the chief visitor at Bangadesh’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations. He would even be the chief visitor that the one hundredth beginning anniversary celebrations of the nation’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman.
This could be the PM’s first abroad go to after the onset of the COVID-19. The PM would land in Dhaka on March 26 and would return on March 27 after visiting three cities in Bangladesh.
The PM mentioned that his go to will serve to underline India’s assist for Bangladesh’s financial and developmental achievements.
The PM mentioned, “my go to won’t solely be an event to convey appreciation for Bangladesh’s outstanding financial and developmental strides beneath Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visionary management, but in addition to commit India’s abiding assist for these achievements. I may even categorical India’s assist and solidarity for Bangladesh’s battle in opposition to Covid-19. Modi mentioned he was wanting ahead to collaborating within the Nationwide Day celebrations, which may even commemorate the beginning centenary of “Bangabandhu” Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the daddy of the nation of Bangladesh.”
The PM will go to Tungipara, the household village of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. He’ll supply prayers on the Jessoreshwari Temple in Satkhira and on the Matua Temple in Orakhandi. International secretary Harsh Shringla advised reporters that Bangladesh is India’s improvement associate on this planet.
The go to is a vital one and the PM had described Bangladesh as an essential pillar of India’s neighbourhood first coverage. The final journey overseas made by the PM was in November 2019. He needed to scrap his journey plans over the previous one yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PM Modi would be the chief visitor on the most important even organised by the Sheikh Hasina authorities to commemorate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declaring erstwhile East Pakistan as an unbiased nation, Bangladesh, on March 26, 1971. India had helped Bangladesh defeat Pakistan, which led to the surrendering of their forces on December 16 1971.
Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had final week met his Bangladeshi counterpart A Okay Abdul Momen and held wide-ranging discussions on methods to take ahead the bilateral relations.
As a part of India”s “Neighbourhood First” coverage, Jaishankar arrived in Dhaka final week on a day-long go to to organize the bottom for Prime Minister Narendra Modi”s upcoming go to to Bangladesh.
Momen and Jaishankar led their respective sides at a bilateral assembly held at a state guesthouse and took inventory of the progress of relations between the 2 international locations.
“EAM @DrSJaishankar held wide-ranging bilateral discussions with FM @AKAbdulMomen at State Visitor Home Padma,” the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka mentioned in a tweet.
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