PM Modi is on a two-day tour of Bangladesh.
On the primary day of his two-day tour of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed an occasion organised on the event of Bangladesh National Day. Paying tributes to troopers who fought Bangladesh’s conflict for independence, PM Modi recalled his affiliation with the neighbouring nation’s wrestle for liberation from Pakistan.
PM Modi identified that one in all his first protests was for Bangladesh’s independence.
“I would like to remind brothers and sisters in Bangladesh with pride, being involved in the struggle for independence of Bangladesh was one of the first movements of my life. I must have been 20-22 years old when I and my colleagues did Satyagraha for Bangladesh’s freedom,” PM Modi said in Dhaka.
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He even went on to recall the atrocities meted out to Bangladeshi residents by the Pakistan military.
“The pictures of atrocities that the Pakistan army inflicted on the people here used to distract us. For many days those pictures didn’t let us sleep,” PM Modi said.
Wearing white kurta, pyjama and a ‘Mujib Jacket’ on the event which was organised to mark the fiftieth yr of Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan and the centenary yr of its founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, PM Sheikh Hasina’s father, PM Modi said the connection between New Delhi and Dhaka is a stable one which will not ‘fall prey to any sort of diplomacy’.
“Today in Bangladesh, the blood of those who fought for their liberation and the blood of Indian soldiers are flowing together. This blood will form such a relationship that will not break down under any type of pressure and will not fall prey to any kind of diplomacy,” he said in a veiled assault on China.
During the occasion, PM Modi handed over the Gandhi Peace Prize 2020, conferred by India upon Bangladesh’s ‘Father of the Nation’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to his daughter Sheikh Rehana and the youthful sister of premier Sheikh Hasina.
The Gandhi Peace Prize is an annual award instituted by the federal government of India since 1995, the a hundred and twenty fifth beginning anniversary commemoration yr of Mahatma Gandhi.
