bdnews24.com :
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will represent Bangladesh in India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony on May 26.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has confirmed the news agency of her leaving Dhaka the day before for the event.
India earlier invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or her designated representative to attend the ceremony at Modi’s request.
Hasina will leave Dhaka for Tokyo on May 24 night on an official visit that will run through to May 28.
The junior minister said India had invited the prime minister also for a courtesy meeting after the ceremony.
But he said, the prime minister’s Japan visit had been scheduled long before. “So, the prime minister has designated Speaker for the ceremony.”
Earlier, bdnews24.com’s New Delhi correspondent reported that Modi conveyed his wish of inviting all SAARC heads to President Pranab Mukherjee when he met him on Tuesday.
There is no recent precedent for inviting foreign heads of government when an Indian prime minister has been sworn in, but Modi has a penchant for doing the most unusual.
SAARC nations include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
Modi apparently wants to send out through this invitation a “very strong signal of a neighbour-friendly new government”, his party BJP sources say.
He has been engaged in some tough talk against both Pakistan and Bangladesh on issues of terrorism and illegal migration, but has later said that “election campaign and governance” are two different propositions.
The BJP has indicated that Modi will completely re-craft Indian foreign policy into a meaningful exercise after having denounced the Congress for a “weak foreign policy”.
BJP leaders say Modi would make clear his mind on his approach to SAARC heads of governments about the “future direction of Indian policy” in the region.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will represent Bangladesh in India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony on May 26.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has confirmed the news agency of her leaving Dhaka the day before for the event.
India earlier invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or her designated representative to attend the ceremony at Modi’s request.
Hasina will leave Dhaka for Tokyo on May 24 night on an official visit that will run through to May 28.
The junior minister said India had invited the prime minister also for a courtesy meeting after the ceremony.
But he said, the prime minister’s Japan visit had been scheduled long before. “So, the prime minister has designated Speaker for the ceremony.”
Earlier, bdnews24.com’s New Delhi correspondent reported that Modi conveyed his wish of inviting all SAARC heads to President Pranab Mukherjee when he met him on Tuesday.
There is no recent precedent for inviting foreign heads of government when an Indian prime minister has been sworn in, but Modi has a penchant for doing the most unusual.
SAARC nations include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
Modi apparently wants to send out through this invitation a “very strong signal of a neighbour-friendly new government”, his party BJP sources say.
He has been engaged in some tough talk against both Pakistan and Bangladesh on issues of terrorism and illegal migration, but has later said that “election campaign and governance” are two different propositions.
The BJP has indicated that Modi will completely re-craft Indian foreign policy into a meaningful exercise after having denounced the Congress for a “weak foreign policy”.
BJP leaders say Modi would make clear his mind on his approach to SAARC heads of governments about the “future direction of Indian policy” in the region.
