A day after he invoked historical past to underline the brutal repression by the Pakistani Army and India’s position within the liberation of Dhaka 50 years in the past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday stated each India and Bangladesh need “stability, love, and peace” as a substitute of “instability, terror, and unrest” on the earth.
Earlier on Saturday, Modi spoke to the Matua neighborhood members after providing prayers at their temple in Gopalganj’s Orakandi — the birthplace of Hindu mystic determine and neighborhood’s non secular guru Harichand Thakur.
“Both India and Bangladesh want to see the world progressing through their own development. Both the countries want to see stability, love, and peace instead of instability, terror, and unrest in the world,” Modi stated. He stated it was throughout his go to to Bangladesh in 2015 that he had expressed his need to go to Orakandi and this want had come true now. This place is a pilgrimage website for the non secular relationship between India and Bangladesh, Modi stated.
“I was speaking to some people here. They were saying who could have thought that India’s PM would visit Orakandi,” Modi stated. He added that he felt an emotional solidarity with Matua neighborhood members in India after visiting Orakandi from the place Harichand Thakur had disseminated his pious messages.
Orakandi is the thought of the non secular centre of the Hindu Matua neighborhood, a lot of whom are residents of neighbouring West Bengal. Significantly, the Matua neighborhood’s assist is taken into account essential within the West Bengal elections – Modi was accompanied by BJP MP from West Bengal Shantanu Thakur throughout his go to.
Modi introduced that India will improve one ladies’ center faculty and arrange a major faculty in Orakandi.
Modi stated the Matua neighborhood celebrates the annual “Baroni Shanan Utshab” to mark the start anniversary of Harichand Thakur and a lot of devotees from India come to Orakandi to take part on this pageant.
“To make this pilgrimage easier for citizens of India, efforts will be made on behalf of the Government of India,” he stated. “We are also committed to grand events and various works reflecting the glorious history of the Matua community in Thakurnagar (West Bengal).”
“I have always been very close to the family members of the Thakurbari,” he added.
“The way India and Bangladesh governments are working towards strengthening their ties, Harichand Thakur and Thakurbari have been doing this for ages. This place symbolises the spiritual tryst of India and Bangladesh,” he stated.
In his tackle, Modi stated that it was essential for each India and Bangladesh to return collectively and battle frequent challenges.
He stated that through the Covid pandemic, India and Bangladesh proved their capabilities.
“Both nations are facing this pandemic strongly and fighting it together. India is working by considering that it is its duty that ‘Made in India’ vaccines reach the citizens of Bangladesh,” Modi added. He stated India is transferring ahead with the mantra of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, and Sabka Vishwas’, and Bangladesh is its co-passenger on that journey. “Bangladesh is presenting a strong example of development and change in front of the world and India is your co-passenger in these efforts,” he added.
He additionally visited the mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and paid floral tributes to him, changing into the first-ever overseas Head of State or Head of Government to pay homage on the grave of ‘Bangabandhu’ at Tungipara in southwestern Bangladesh. The PM was acquired on the mausoleum by his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, who’s the daughter of Rahman. Sheikh Rehana, the youngest daughter of Rahman was additionally current.
Modi paid floral tributes to ‘Bangabandhu’ and stood in silence whereas Hasina and her Cabinet supplied prayers.
“The life of Bangabandhu epitomized the freedom struggle of the people of Bangladesh for their rights, for the preservation of their inclusive culture and their identity,” Modi wrote within the customer ebook on the Mausoleum complicated.
He began his day Saturday providing prayers on the centuries-old Jeshoreshwari Kali temple in Ishwaripur village in southwestern Bangladesh and introduced that India would assemble a neighborhood corridor and cyclone shelter connected to the temple.
On the second day of his two-day go to to Bangladesh, Modi carried out pooja on the temple in Satkhira, which is likely one of the 51 Shaktipeeths within the Puranic custom. Modi additionally positioned a home made mukut, made from silver with gold plating on Goddess Kali. This mukut was remodeled three weeks by an area artisan.
“Feeling blessed after praying at the Jeshoreshwari Kali Temple,” Modi tweeted after providing prayers. Speaking exterior the temple, Modi stated that he prayed to Goddess Kali to free the human race from Covid.
