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Published on April 10, 2017
He said this when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid him a courtesy call at Rashtrapati Bhaban in New Delhi on Sunday evening.
The Indian President said he was very much touched personally with the gesture of th Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina as she had taken the trouble to visit India to convey her compassion after demise of his wife Suvra Mukherjee.
PM's press secretary Ihsanul Karim said they discussed various matters relating to bilateral interests including the decisions agreed by the two countries at yesterday's talks between Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi.
The premier thanked Pranab Mukherjee for his wholehearted support to Bangladesh's War of Liberation.
They also reminisced the memories which both their families shared during Sheikh Hasina's exile life in India after the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975, the press secretary said.
Later, Sheikh Hasina joined a dinner to be hosted in her honour by the Indian President.
Photo: Focus Bangla
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