New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday (March 16, 2021) introduced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted Sheikh Hasina’s invite to visit Bangladesh on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary.
The MEA knowledgeable that PM Modi will visit Bangladesh on March 26 and 27.
“At the invitation of Prime Minister H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will be visiting Bangladesh on March 26 & 27, 2021,” the MEA stated.
The visit is in connection with the commemoration of three epochal occasions – Mujib Borsho, the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman; 50 years of the institution of diplomatic ties between India and Bangladesh; and 50 years of Bangladesh’s conflict of liberation.Â
PM Modi who had final visited Bangladesh in 2015 will even attend the National Day programme of Bangladesh on March 26, because the visitor of honour.
According to MEA, the programme of the Prime Minister, aside from holding bilateral consultations with Sheikh Hasina, additionally features a name on Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid.
“Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr A.K. Abdul Momen will call on the Prime Minister,” MEA stated.
Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the neighbouring nation will likely be his first visit to a international nation for the reason that COVID-19 outbreak, which, the MEA stated ‘highlights the precedence India attaches to Bangladesh’.
This is to be famous that India has thus far offered Bangladesh with 90 lakh Indian-made COVID-19 vaccines.Â
