Hasina congratulates Priyanka as Congress chief Sonia meets PM in New Delhi

Indian opposition Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi has met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 6 Oct 2019, 04:04 PM
Updated : 6 Oct 2019, 07:25 PM

Sonia saw her at the Taj Mahal Hotel on Sunday afternoon.

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi were also present.

They reminisced about their past in the meeting, Hasina’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told the media.

The prime minister remembered the role of the Indian government and people during the 1971 Liberation War.

She congratulated Sonia’s daughter Priyanka on her joining politics.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, Sheikh Helal Uddin MP, and PM’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman were also present.

 

Priyanka tweeted a photo of Hasina hugging her during the meeting and wrote: “An overdue hug from Sheikh Hasina Ji whom I have been waiting to meet again for a long time.”

”Her strength in overcoming deep personal loss and hardship and fighting for what she believed in with bravery and perseverance is, and always will be a great inspiration for me,” she added.

Hasina in different programmes recalls how Priyanka’s grandmother former prime minister Indira Gandhi helped Bangladesh during the war.

She also expresses gratitude to Indira for sheltering her and her sister Sheikh Rehana after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most other members of the family on Aug 15, 1975.