Hasina invited to visit India
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
New Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to visit India. Modi conveyed the invitation through Bangladesh’s Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury during a meeting with her at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury said she found Modi ‘positive’ on solving outstanding bilateral issues with Bangladesh. Chaudhury handed over a letter from Sheikh Hasina, who is now on a visit to Japan, to the Indian prime minister, which promises to ‘work together to take bilateral relations to a new high’. The letter also invites Modi to visit Dhaka at the earliest possible. The speaker said the Indian prime minister expressed his willingness to make a trip to Bangladesh ‘as early as possible’, according to bdnews24.com.