- By Abhinav Gupta
- Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:58 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday that she was satisfied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assurance that her country should not be perturbed over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) being implemented in Assam.
According to a report in The Indian Express, speaking about the NRC at a reception hosted by Bangladesh envoy Syed Muazzem Ali, Hasina said that she doesn’t see a problem with the exercise.
“I had a talk with PM Modi. Everything is okay,” she was quoted as saying.
Her remarks come a week after she met PM Modi during the UN General Assembly Session in New York and said that the NRC had become a matter of ‘great concern’ for Bangladeshis.
As of now, the NRC has included 3.11 crore applicants as citizens, and excluded 19 lakh. Recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reiterated in Kolkata that the government would “identify each and every infiltrator and drive them out”.
Hasina arrived in India on Thursday on a four-day visit to attend the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum and is scheduled to meet Modi on Saturday for a bilateral meeting.
The two prime ministers will also jointly inaugurate three bilateral projects via video link. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will also call on Hasina during her visit.
This is her first visit to India since parliamentary elections were held in Bangladesh and India. Ties between the two countries have been on an upswing in the last few years.
