Mamata coming Dhaka before Modi...5th June

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she would visit Bangladesh on 5 June and return home on 6 June after the signing of the Land Boundary Agreement.

The tour plan indicates that she would be visiting Bangladesh separately as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on 6 June.

On 28 May, the state’s Education and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Partha Chatterjee, first broke the news that Mamata would accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Dhaka trip, according to an Indian media.

‘I will be reaching Bangladesh on 5 June and will be back on 6 June after the signing of the Land Boundary Agreement,’ Banerjee told reporters at the state secretariat in Kolkata.

Parliament had recently passed the constitution amendment bill seeking to settle India’s 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh.

The legislation would operationalise the 1974 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary agreement that provides for exchange of 161 enclaves adversely held by the two countries.