President Abdul Hamid has reached New Delhi on a three-day visit to India; to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as the Indian prime minister for a second consecutive term.
A special flight of Bangladesh Biman, carrying the president and members of his entourage, landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport at 7:30 pm, reports BSS.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Moazzem Ali, and his counterpart in Bangladesh Riva Ganguli Das, welcomed him there.
Hamid's wife Rashida Khanam, and Liberation War Affairs Minister, AKM Mozammel Haque, among others, are accompanying the president.
President Abdul Hamid will return home on May 31.
During his three-day visit, Hamid will also pay a courtesy call on his Indian counterpart, President Ram Nath Kovind.
The Indian president will administer the Oath of Office and Secrecy to Narendra Modi—and other members of the union council of ministers—on Thursday at 7pm, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, according to a statement issued by the Indian President's Secretariat.
Kovind appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister after the landslide victory of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the recently-concluded Indian national election.
Modi was appointed for a second consecutive term, soon after the NDA leaders, on Saturday, elected Modi as their leader in the parliament, according to official sources.
