Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met with senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday. Photographs posted on social media show the Bangladeshi leader along with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Notably, the meeting comes a day after Hasina attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji, former Congress President Shri Rahul Gandhi, and Congress General Secretary Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ji greeted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed ji and met other delegates in New Delhi today.
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The ties between the Nehru-Gandhi family and Hasina are deep-rooted. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh and Sheikh Hasina’s father, had strong ties with former PM Indira Gandhi. In fact, it was Indira Gandhi who played a key role in Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.