Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in the national capital to attend First Lady Suvra Mukherjee’s funeral and she will meet PM Narendra Modi after that.
New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday arrived in the national capital to attend the funeral of President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee.
Bangladesh Prime Minister met President Pranab Mukherjee and offered her condolences on the demise of his wife Surva.
She also visited the residence of Abhijeet Mukherjee, the President’s son, and placed a wreath on Surva Mukherjee’s body, which has been kept there to enable people to offer their last respects.
The Bangladeshi Prime Minister, who is accompanied by Foreign Minister AH Mahmud Ali, Hasina’s younger sister Sheikh Rehana and her daughter Saima Wazed was welcomed by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Earlier, the First Lady, who remained hospitalised for 11 days, breathed her last at 10.51 a.m. at the Army Research and Referral Hospital on Tuesday.
She was admitted to the Army Hospital on August 7 after she complained of breathlessness and discomfort. Since then, she had been in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.