New Delhi: On his two-day visit to Bangladesh beginning Friday (March 26), Prime Minister Narendra Modi is predicted to visit the Matua community’s Shri Shri Harichand temple and the Hari temple of Guruchand on the Orakandi Thakurbari underneath Kashiani upazila, Gopalganj.
The prime minister will even spend time with the family of Harichand Thakur, founder of the Matua community. According to Padmanabha Thakur, president of the Bangladesh Matua Maha Mission, Harichand Thakur was born at Orakandi in 1812.
The Matua community of Bangladesh, a Scheduled Caste group with a presence in no less than six parliamentary seats of West Bengal.
A big chunk of the community moved into West Bengal following the partition of India and likewise after the 2001-02 anti-Hindu pogroms throughout the Khaleda Zia authorities. The community leaders declare that their inhabitants is about 3 crore.
Modi will even visit the Jashoreshwari Kali temple at Ishwaripur underneath Shaymnagar upazila. This would be the first-ever visit by a international head of state to the temple.
Custodian of the temple, Jyoti Chattapaddhaya mentioned essential preparations are being completed to welcome the Indian prime minister and the delegates.
PM Modi is slated to meet the nation’s President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Â
A variety of pacts will probably be signed and new bulletins for bolstering cooperation in a number of areas will probably be made throughout the visit.
The PM will even work together with numerous teams of Bangladesh’s polity and society which is able to embrace the representatives of the nation’s ruling 14-party alliance, the opposition social gathering, freedom fighters, community leaders and youth icons.
Modi will visit the mausoleum of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj district.
The PM will even attend Bangladesh’s nationwide day celebrations on March 26 and can ship an handle on the event on the parade floor in Dhaka.
Modi can also be scheduled to visit the ‘National Martyrs’ Memorial’ situated in Savar. The memorial was arrange in honour of those that died in the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971.
This is his first visit to a international nation because the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
