PM likely to visit India in September

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit India next September to attend the 18th G20 summit, which is slated for 9 and 10 September in India.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit India next September to attend the 18th G20 summit, which is slated for 9 and 10 September in India.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, came up with the disclosure while addressing an inaugural ceremony in the capital on Wednesday (May 24).

He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit India again in September to attend the G20. We are expecting that the Bangladesh Awami League delegation will go there in July.

Obaidul Quader also said the friendly relations between India and Bangladesh in 1971 turned into mistrust and suspicion after the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975. However, we would have benefited if we could have maintained that friendly relationship. But that did not happen in the reality of Bangladesh. Our disbelief created a wall of doubt. That was needed to break.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have broken that wall.

Meanwhile, he urged India and said that if they invest here then we don’t need to go far.

Most of our BRTC vehicles were manufactured by India. There are around 1100 BRTC buses here in country now. We planning to import electric double-decker buses again, he added.

Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Bharma, Roads and highway division secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuru and others attended the function.