Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has brought cakes, sweetmeats and biscuits specially made at Rashtrapati Bhavan for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Kovind also shared his delight over mangoes sent by the prime minister and said those were “very sweet and tasty.”
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam said this mentioning that the prime minister gladly received the sweetmeats, cakes and biscuits from the Indian president.
India’s leading media widely reported on Hasina's gift of sweet Haribhanga mango that had been sent to Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other political leaders in India in July this year.
Some of the Indian media described the gift as “mango diplomacy” while Dhaka says it is just sharing happiness with friends and neighbours in this historic year.
Prime Minister Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen met the Indian president on Wednesday. This is the Indian president’s first visit to Bangladesh.
At the invitation of President Md Abdul Hamid, Kovind will attend the 50th Victory Day celebrations of Bangladesh, the closing ceremony of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years of Bangladesh-India diplomatic relations on Thursday.
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On the third day of his visit on Friday, Kovind will also inaugurate and inspect the newly renovated section of the “Kali Mondir” at Ramna.
He expressed his interest in exchanging views with the members of the relevant committee of the temple.
The Indian president will leave Dhaka for Delhi at midday on Friday.
Earlier, Indian Prime Minister Modi had paid a state visit to Bangladesh from March 26 to 27, 2021, to join the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the independence of Bangladesh, the birth centenary of Bangabandhu and 50 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Bangladesh.
Momen said such a high-level visit between Bangladesh and India in 2021 will be mentioned in gold letters as a milestone chapter in the existing relations between the two countries.