Assam Assembly goodwill team leaves for Bangladesh

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: A 32-member team of the Assam Legislative Assembly led by Speaker Biswajit Daimary left for Bangladesh today on a goodwill mission. The team reached Agartala this evening. It will start for Dhaka on Friday morning by road.

The Assembly delegation has both ruling and opposition legislators, including Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia, besides a cultural troupe and bureaucrats of the State Legislative Assembly Secretariat. Such a huge delegation from the State Assembly leaving abroad like this is a first of a kind.

Talking to The Sentinel before leaving Guwahati for Dhaka, the Speaker said, "It is a goodwill mission from the State Assembly to Bangladesh via Agartala. During the tour, we will meet the Bangladesh Prime Minister and the Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament (Jatiya Sansad), besides a few ministers. Our legislators will study the transport and tourism industries in Bangladesh during the visit. We will interact with the Assamese, Bodo and Garo people staying in various villages in Bangladesh. We will also have cultural exchanges with them."

The Assembly team interacted with a few legislators and bureaucrats of the Tripura Legislative Assembly this evening.

Tomorrow morning, the Assam Assembly team will enter Bangladesh through the Akhaura border, from where they will proceed to Dhaka. It takes around a four-and-a-half-hour journey to Dhaka from there. In Dhaka, they will take part in a few programmes. On November 20, they will call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The delegation will return on November 22 via the Akhaura border.

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