UNB, Dhaka :Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night.The meeting that began at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office at 8:10 pm last for one hour and 20 minutes.Briefing reporters after the meeting, BNP chairperson’s adviser Sabih Uddin Ahmed said it was a courtesy call. “Issues relating to bilateral interests were discussed at the meeting,” he said.He, however, parried a question whether the country’s latest political situation, and terrorism and militancy were discussed at the meeting. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, were, among others, present at the meeting.Meanwhile, a BNP leader who was present at the meeting said issues relating to mutual interests of the two nations and Bangladesh’s current situation and militancy and terrorism problem came up for discussions at the meeting.Besides, he said, the BNP chief made clear her party’s stance over India and sent out a message that her party wants India to build relations with the country’s people instead of only one party to make the ties between the two close neighbours sustainable. It was the first meeting between the BNP chief and Harsh Vardhan since the latter’s arrival in Dhaka on January 14 this year as the new Indian High Commissioner.Shringla, a career diplomat, succeeded former Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran who left Dhaka on December 19 last year on completion of his diplomatic assignment here.
