NRC, CAA India’s Internal Issues, Won’t Harm Bangladesh: Shringla

NRC, CAA India’s Internal Issues, Won’t Harm Bangladesh: Shringla

Highlighting the ‘most extensive and integrated’ relationship between the 2 countries, Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday reiterated that the NRC and Citizenship Amendment Act would haven't any impact on Bangladesh.

‘These are purely internal to India,’ he said while delivering the keynote address at a seminar on Bangladesh and India: A Promising Future at Sonargaon Hotel within the city. Bangladesh Institute for International Studies hosted the event.

Prime minister’s world affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi spoke because the chief guest highlighting the connection between the 2 countries. He laid emphasis on water sharing issues and protecting secular values. Rizvi said Bangladesh and India needed to figure very closely to guard secular society. He also sought a future solution to all or any the issues between the 2 countries.

BIISS chairman ambassador Fazlul Karim and Indian diplomat Riva Ganguly Das, among others, spoke at the program.

NRC, CAA India’s Internal Issues, Won’t Harm Bangladesh: Shringla

Shringla said the good poet-philosopher, Kazi Nazrul Islam, once wrote ‘We all share happiness and sorrow equally.’ ‘This noble emotion must motivate us as neighbors, to recognize that both sorrow and happiness don't respect borders or passports: during this globalized era, they arrive equally at everyone’s doorstep.’

He said their approach to Bangladesh would always be characterized by this sentiment. ‘And I trust that our prime minister’s visit later this month will fully exemplify India’s strong sentiment of goodwill, trust, and respect for Bangladesh.’

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been specially invited to participate within the inaugural ceremony of Mujib Barsho later this month.

‘We are looking forward to the present visit, both due to the priority the prime minister attaches to the present relationship, and even more so, because Bangabandhu is simply so iconic — as a globally-recognized statesman and iconic symbol of liberation for Bangladesh and for our subcontinent. For us in India, there's a special resonance to his name. he's as revered and as remembered in India, as he's here in Bangladesh,’ he said.