West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet in Kolkata today. Sheikh Hasina is in the city to witness the first-ever Day-Night test cricket match in the country.
The meeting will start at around 6 pm at a city hotel, Banerjee told journalists at a press conference in Murshidabad yesterday.
Banerjee has said that the meeting will be focused on strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries. She said that she believes the meeting will yield positive results.
Even before she became chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee always had personal ties with Sheikh Hasina. This has always played an important role in improving the relations between the two countries. Banerjee told journalists that people of West Bengal hold Sheikh Hasina in very high esteem.
The issues which to be discussed between the two were not disclosed by officials from any side. Neither was there any hint whether the Teesta water agreement might be raised in the meeting. The much-debated Teesta water agreement was due to be signed between the two countries in 2011, when Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister of India. But it was stalled due to objections raised by Banerjee, who said it would affect the people of West Bengal.
Sheikh Hasina reached Kolkata at around 10.40 am on Friday. Saurav Ganguly, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president, received her at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. Mamata Banerjee will be present with Sheikh Hasina at the inaugural ceremony and the cultural program at Eden Gardens before the match starts.
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