Sonia accepts Hasina’s invitation to visit Bangladesh

New Delhi: Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday accepted visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s invitation to visit her country for commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s liberation, a Congress statement said.
Sheikh Hasina also extended her invitation to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party’s General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
A Congress delegation comprising Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rajya Sabha MP Anand Sharma met the Bangladesh Prime Minister here on Sunday morning, a day after she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with Hasina came “especially considering the bond of friendship between the two families”, said the statement.
Sheikh Hasina was accompanied by Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Momen, senior ministers and her advisers.
In the meeting, she recalled with gratitude India’s support for Bangladesh’s liberation and the special bond of friendship that her father and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman shared with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the statement said, adding she also revisited the period after his assassination when she lived in exile in Delhi.