President, PM congratulate Indian President-elect Ram Nath

Bangladesh President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today congratulated Ram Nath Kovind on being elected the new president of India and invited him to visit the country.

"I have firm belief that the ties of friendship and cooperation, which so happily exist between our two countries, would be further widened and deepened under your able presidency," Hamid said in his message to Kovind, India's president-elect.

He said the "extremely friendly engagements over last several years have given a strong dynamism to our bilateral relations."

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"I also take this opportunity, Excellency, to extend to you my most cordial invitation to visit Bangladesh at your earliest convenience", Hamid said in the message, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Hasina, in a separate message to the Indian president-elect, said "we continue to look forward to working closely with the government of India in elevating our multifarious relations further in order to achieve common prosperity for our peoples."

Hasina noted with satisfaction that Dhaka and New Delhi have taken their bilateral relations to a new height drawing strength from cultural and historical relations, according to a press release issued by the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.

Extending her heartiest congratulations, the PM "warmly invited" the Indian president-elect to visit Bangladesh at his convenience.

A candidate of India's ruling BJP for the top constitutional post, Kovind won the Indian presidential elections held on Monday by an emphatic margin defeating Joint opposition nominee Meira Kumar.