Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India's Northeast early next year, according to a senior local official.
She will visit Tripura on Jan 12 next year to participate in a convocation programme of Tripura University, vice chancellor Prof Arunoday Saha said on Wednesday. "The university will confer upon her honorary doctorate degree - Doctor of Literature - during her visit."
This will be her maiden to the region.
"Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has given her consent to attend the 9th convocation of the Tripura University scheduled for Jan 12," Prof Saha said
The vice president of India, Hamid Ansari, is likely to handover the degree to Sheikh Hasina at the programme.
Earlier, governor of Tripura D Y Patil and chief minister Manik Sarkar during their visit to Dhaka had extended separate invitations to the prime minister and Awami League president to visit the state.
Tripura shares a long 857-km border and has a close cultural affinity with Bangladesh.
Sarkar, along with Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla and Mukul Sangma of Meghalaya accompanied Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on his two-day Bangladesh tour on Sep 6-7.
After his return from Dhaka, he told reporters "The Bangladesh prime minister is keen to visit Tripura, and the Tripura University in consultation with the Indian and Bangladeshi authorities is giving final shape to her visit."
Sarkar added, "Hasina will be the first Bangladeshi prime minister to visit the Northeast. It will further enhance the bilateral relation between the two nations, and boost trade and business relations between the northeast region of India and its closest neighbour Bangladesh."
The Tripura government is preparing for a grand reception to the Bangladesh premier and the Indian vice president.
Hasina is expected to hold a high level meeting with the Tripura chief minister and other top Indian officials in Agartala to finalise more strategies to boost trade and business between Bangladesh and India's northeastern states.
She will stay here on Jan 12 and leave for Dhaka the next day.
Hasina may also visit one or two locations of the erstwhile base and training camps of Bangladeshi "Mukti Bahini" (Bangladeshi freedom fighters) in Tripura, which had over 16 such camps in various parts of the state where the freedom fighters took arms training to fight out Pakistani occupation forces.
Moreover, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, over 1,600,000 Bangladeshi nationals had taken shelter in Tripura. Their number exceeded the then population of the state.
She will visit Tripura on Jan 12 next year to participate in a convocation programme of Tripura University, vice chancellor Prof Arunoday Saha said on Wednesday. "The university will confer upon her honorary doctorate degree - Doctor of Literature - during her visit."
This will be her maiden to the region.
"Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has given her consent to attend the 9th convocation of the Tripura University scheduled for Jan 12," Prof Saha said
The vice president of India, Hamid Ansari, is likely to handover the degree to Sheikh Hasina at the programme.
Earlier, governor of Tripura D Y Patil and chief minister Manik Sarkar during their visit to Dhaka had extended separate invitations to the prime minister and Awami League president to visit the state.
Tripura shares a long 857-km border and has a close cultural affinity with Bangladesh.
Sarkar, along with Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla and Mukul Sangma of Meghalaya accompanied Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on his two-day Bangladesh tour on Sep 6-7.
After his return from Dhaka, he told reporters "The Bangladesh prime minister is keen to visit Tripura, and the Tripura University in consultation with the Indian and Bangladeshi authorities is giving final shape to her visit."
Sarkar added, "Hasina will be the first Bangladeshi prime minister to visit the Northeast. It will further enhance the bilateral relation between the two nations, and boost trade and business relations between the northeast region of India and its closest neighbour Bangladesh."
The Tripura government is preparing for a grand reception to the Bangladesh premier and the Indian vice president.
Hasina is expected to hold a high level meeting with the Tripura chief minister and other top Indian officials in Agartala to finalise more strategies to boost trade and business between Bangladesh and India's northeastern states.
She will stay here on Jan 12 and leave for Dhaka the next day.
Hasina may also visit one or two locations of the erstwhile base and training camps of Bangladeshi "Mukti Bahini" (Bangladeshi freedom fighters) in Tripura, which had over 16 such camps in various parts of the state where the freedom fighters took arms training to fight out Pakistani occupation forces.
Moreover, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, over 1,600,000 Bangladeshi nationals had taken shelter in Tripura. Their number exceeded the then population of the state.
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