Hasina to attend opening of Bangladesh Bhavana at Visva-Bharati university Friday

Hasina to attend opening of Bangladesh
Bhavana at Visva-Bharati university
Friday
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is leaving for
West Bengal on Friday to join her Indian
counterpart Narendra Modi at the opening of
Bangladesh Bhavana at the Visva-Bharati
during a convocation of the university.
She will also attend a special convocation of
Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol during the
two-day visit, her Press Secretary Ihsanul
Karim told the media on Tuesday.
She will hold a bilateral meeting with Modi on
the sidelines of the convocation at
Santiniketan.
The prime minister will go to the Thakur Bari
at Jorasanko and Netaji Museum in Kolkata.
She will fly out of Shahjalal International
Airport with Biman Bangladesh Airlines to
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International
Airport in Kolkata on Friday.
From there, she will travel to Santiniketan in
Birbhum.
Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Prof Sabuj Koli
Sen will welcome Hasina to Santiniketan.
She will be welcomed to the convocation of
the university by Modi at the Rabindra
Bhavana.
After the convocation, the prime ministers will
unveil the nameplate of the Bangladesh
Bhavana.
They will also deliver speeches before holding
bilateral talks.
Funded by the Bangladesh government, the
building has a 450-seat theatre, the largest of
the university.
A library of books on Bangladesh and its
relations with India is also there besides a
collection of historical and cultural artifacts of
Bangladesh.
Murals of the Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and
Rabindranath Tagore have been placed on the
two sides of the building’s entrance.
Hasina announced the construction of the
Bangladesh Bhavana during the joint
celebrations of Rabindranath’s 150th birth
anniversary in 2011.
From the Visva-Bharati, she will travel to
Kolkata on a helicopter and stay at the Taj
Bengal hotel for the night.
She will visit Rabindranath’s birthplace, the
Thakur Bari, at Jorasanko and meet business
leaders of Kolkata at the hotel in the evening.
On Saturday, she will travel to Asansol to join
the special convocation of the Kazi Nazrul
University.
Hasina will also receive honorary D Lit degree
from the university.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
will also address the convocation.
On her return to Kolkata from Asansol, she will
visit the Netaju Museum in the afternoon and
return to Dhaka later in the night.
The prime minister visited India for the last
time in April last year.
by: bdnews24