Common people will show respect to Indian PM: Momen

ZOOMBANGLA DESK: Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said common people of Bangladesh will show respect to Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi as he is set to join the mega event of birth centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman here, reports BSS.

“The government has invited Modi as the premier of India, the closest ally of Bangladesh during our Liberation War,” he told newsmen after inaugurating the Khadimpara Union Complex in Sylhet Sadar.

The minister hoped that common people will show respect to Modi as a guest with gesture of the country’s old-aged tradition of hospitality.

“Whoever differing it (Modi’s visit), it’s their personal matter, and in a democratic country everyone has the right to express his or her opinion,” he said.

Earlier, Momen visited the development work of Debairbohor Purbapara road in Sadar Upazila.

Sylhet Deputy Commissioner (DC) M Kazi Emdadul Islam and Sylhet district Awami league general secretary Advocate Nasir Uddin Khan were present, among other.