Bangladesh and India exchanged a total of 162 enclaves on July 31 midnight, 2015 with the land boundary agreement after seven decades of legal limbo. The Land Boundary Agreement was signed on 16 May 1974 between Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bangladesh quickly ratified the agreement in 1974 but India did not. On 6 June 2015, Modi ratified the agreement during his visit to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka. In the presence of Modi and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the foreign secretaries of the two countries signed the instruments of the land exchange.
