Delegation of Bangladesh Awami League party meets BJP chief J P Nadda

NEW DELHI: Exactly a month before Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s slated visit as special invitee to the G-20 Summit meeting to be held here on September 9 and 10, a delegation of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League party met with BJP chief J P Nadda here on Monday. The five-member delegation arrived in Delhi on Sunday for a series of interactions with the ruling BJP and members of the government.

The interaction between the two ruling parties across borders – that are preparing for general elections next year -- included a wide range of issues including political stability in the region, Bangladesh’s economic development, curbing militancy and India-Bangladesh relations, according to meeting sources.

The Bangladesh Awami League also held a formal meeting with the external affairs minister S Jaishankar.

The Awami League delegation will also meet with I&B minister Anurag Thakur, commerce minister Piyush Goel and agriculture minister Narendra Tomar on Tuesday.

Nadda said, BJP and the oldest Bangladesh’s political party Bangladesh Awami League will work for the greatest interest of the region. “BJP has a historic relation with the Awami League since long and we want to carry forward our relation by strengthening party level contacts in the days to come,” he said after the meeting with the five member Awami League delegation at his residence here on Monday.

Awami League (AL) presidium member and agriculture minister Md Abdur Razzak, led the Bangladesh delegation while AL joint-general secretary and information and broadcasting minister Hassan Mahmood Party, organising secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Aroma Dutta MP and Marina Jahan MP, were part of the delegation.

Nadda said India has historic as well as emotional relations with Bangladesh from the very inception of the country (Bangladesh) in 1971 through War of Independence. He also said the relations between the two countries reached new heights during the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.”

In this context, he mentioned the long standing Bangladesh India Land Boundary and Maritime Disputes and crisis in the Indian North-Eastern states were resolved during the tenure of the two premiers.

The BJP president also mentioned with gratitude that the crisises in the India’s north-eastern states were solved due to the pro-active initiative of the present AL government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Hailing the present economic development in Bangladesh, Nadda said, Bangladesh achieved a tremendous success in the country’s socio-economic sectors in the region, which is considered as an example for other countries.

There was a party-to-party interaction between AL delegation, led by Abdur Razzak and a BJP delegation led by general secretary Vinod Tawde.