Modi’s busy Dhaka schedule
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his around 36-hour visit to Bangladesh on June 6-7 will meet top political leaders, ministers, businessmen and other people.
As per the draft programme schedule, Modi will arrive in Dhaka by a special flight on June 6 around 11:00am. The Indian leader will be accompanied by a large official delegation, including the external affairs minister, finance minister, commerce minister, shipping minister, transport minister and national security adviser.
Speculation is high that the chief ministers of Bangladesh’s bordering Indian states would join Modi on the trip.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will receive her Indian counterpart at the VVIP terminal of Shahjalal International Airport.
Two tiny tots will present floral bouquets to the Indian PM. He will be greeted with a 19-gun salute and a guard of honour.
From the airport, the Indian premier will go to the National Memorial in Savar to lay a wreath. He will plant a sapling and sign the visitors’ book there.
He will then travel to Pan Pacific Hotel Sonargaon where he will be staying during his stay in the capital.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Finance Minister AMA Muhith will separately call on Modi at the hotel in the afternoon of June 6.
The Indian PM will then go to the Prime Minister’s Office to join the crucial official talks with Sheikh Hasina on the whole range of issues.
The talks will be followed by signing of around a dozen of agreements, protocols and MoUs. The two leaders are likely to make a media statement.
Modi will attend a state banquet to be hosted by the Bangladesh PM in his honour at hotel Sonargaon.
Dhaka will honour former Indian premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his outstanding contributions to Bangladesh’s Liberation War. Modi will receive an award on behalf of Vajpayee.
On June 7, Modi is expected to address a meeting either at Dhaka University or at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on India-Bangladesh ties.
Modi will call on President Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhaban. He will then visit Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi to place a wreath at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and some other political leaders are likely to meet the Indian PM separately.
Modi will leave Dhaka for New Delhi in the evening.
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