DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is set to form the govt soon, is inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new govt as the party led by its chairman Tarique Rahman wants to engage constructively with India to advance the multifaceted relationship between the two neighbours. The newly elected MPs are expected to take oath by Feb 17, cabinet secretary Dr Sheikh Abdur Rashid said on Saturday.
Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif and other heads of govt of Saarc countries are among the leaders who will be invited to the swearing-in ceremony, senior BNP leaders indicated. This would be only the second time after PM Modi’s swearing-in in 2014 that such an assembly of leaders of south Asian countries would take place.
