Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee and former Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi are expected to visit Dhaka next year to attend Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary celebration next year.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said it on Friday at a discussion on India’s role in Bangladesh’s
glorious War of Liberation and Bangladesh-India relations.
Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee organised the discussion at Poet Sufia Kamal Auditorium of the National Museum on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of India’s recognition to Bangladesh.
While addressing the discussion as the chief guest, the minister said Bangladesh and India are “tied with identical history, literature, culture and heritage” since the beginning of the countries’ bilateral relations.
Moreover, friendship, trust and understanding between the two countries are also better at present than any time in the past, he added.
Momen said also that Bangladesh government has taken an initiative to honour martyred Indian army personnel who died during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.
As part of the initiative, Bangladesh government will soon hand over “honourary crests” to Indian authorities for some 380 martyred members of the Indian army, he said.
Addressing the discussion as special guest, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das said as per her country’s “neighbourhood policy” the present Indian government considers its relations with Bangladesh government as “the most important among neighbours”.
She stressed for further strengthening the present diplomatic relationship between the two countries with an aim to take it to a new height.
