India's BJP eager to work with AL for political stability in the region

NEW DELHI, Aug 07 (BSS): Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda has said his party is eager to work with Bangladesh Awami League (AL) in future for
the sake of political stability and curbing terrorism in the region like
in the past.
"BJP has a warm relation with the Awami League since long and we want to carry forward our relations by strengthening party level contacts in the days to come," he said this while speaking at a meeting with the visiting five-member AL delegation at his residence in New Delhi on Monday.
AL Presidium Member and Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque led the delegation as AL Joint-General Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hassan Mahmud, its Organising Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, AromaDutta, MP, and Professor Marina Jahan, MP, attended.
During the meeting, they discussed different issues including political stability in the region, Bangladesh's economic development, curbing militancy and India-Bangladesh relations as well, according to meeting sources.
Nadda said India has warm relationship with Bangladesh from the very inception of the country in 1971 through the War of Independence. The then young parliamentarian and later Indian Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Bajpyee brought a motion in favour of Bangladesh in 1971 in Indian parliament, he mentioned.
On Bangladesh-India relation, he said the relations between the two countries reached a new height during the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
In this connection, he mentioned that the long-standing Bangladesh-India Land Boundary and Maritime Disputes were solved during the tenure of the two prime ministers.
Hailing the present economic progress in Bangladesh, he 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.
On cross-border terrorism, the delegation members apprised Nadda that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed 'zero tolerance' on terrorism as she (Hasina) said that her government will not allow terrorists to use its single inch of land for terrorism.
After the meeting delegation member and Information and Broadcasting
Minister Hasan Mahmud told the news agency that the meeting, which was lasted for over one and half hours, was held in a 'very cordial atmosphere'.
"We discussed so many issues with the BJP President," he said, adding that Bangladesh AL and BJP have been enjoying a very good relation and the both countries are solving so many outstanding issues in party and even in government levels through discussion in the past.
The information minister hoped that the relations will continue further in the days to come.
Earlier, the Bangladesh delegation held a formal meeting with the BJP at its headquarters here.
BJP General Secretary Vinod Twade and Bangladesh delegation Chief Dr. Abdur Razzaque led their respective delegations.
Welcoming the AL delegation, the BJP General Secretary quoted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's famous quote "Bangladesh and India relations are now enjoying the best of the best relations known as a Golden Chapter (Sonali Adhay) of the bilateral ties".
During the meeting, the both sides also discussed wide range of issues including how to strengthen the
party level relations further with
the exchange of party delegation
level visit.
The five-member delegation of Bangladesh Awami League arrived at News Delhi on Sunday evening at the invitation of Bharatiya Janata Party as part of the 'KNOW BJP' initiative.
The visit aims to enhance party-to-party interaction and enable the delegation to understand the vision and functioning of the BJP.