Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office has tweeted on the exchange of instruments of the Land Boundary Agreement ratification, saying “history is made”.
Modi and Sheikh Hasina witnessed the historic exchange on Saturday, the first day of his maiden Dhaka visit.
Modi came to Dhaka with LBA as “centrepiece” as it was due to his singular drive that the 41-year old deal finally entered the process of implementation.
Spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs Vikas Swarup also tweeted:
“'Historic' doesn't really do justice to this red-letter day. Exchange of Instruments of Ratification of LBA”.
Modi after his arrival in Dhaka on a two-day state visit went to the National Memorial at Savar and then visited Bangabandhu Memorial Museum where Bangladesh’s founding father was assassinated.
He later came to his place of residence, Pan Pacific Sonargoan, and left for Prime Minister’s Office after meeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Banerjee is on his entourage, though she arrived separately, as the LBA issue is directly related with her state.
With the LBA implementation, the stateless life of more than 50,000 people in 161 enclaves on both sides of the border would end.
Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar signed those documents before they exchanged them in presence of two prime ministers.
Earlier, Modi and Hasina flagged off Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala and Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati bus services in a gesture of what India’s spokesperson Swarup tweeted “Connecting lands, binding hearts”.
Modi presented a hand-woven tapestry from Venkatagiri, Andhra Prades and woven in Jamdani style, to Hasina before their meeting.
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