: Its time to chart a bold ambition for partnership between India, Bangladesh: PM Modi #IndiaNEWS #Insights Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh

Its time to chart a bold ambition for partnership between India, Bangladesh: PM Modi #IndiaNEWS #Insights
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 deprived the region of the destiny that could and should have been ours to share as he asserted that it was time to once again chart a bold ambition for partnership between India and Bangladesh.

In an opinion piece titled Imagining a different South Asia with Bangabandhu published in The Daily Star newspaper on Friday, Prime Minister Modi promised that India will remain Bangladeshs partner as they jointly march towards the golden future for which Bangabandhu, and millions of patriotic Bangladeshis, and indeed thousands of Indians, gave their all.

It is time to once again chart a bold ambition for our partnership, as Bangabandhu would have done. With the spirit and enterprise of our people as our Bhagya Vidhata, the dispenser of our shared destiny, such a future is closer than ever, wrote Modi, who is visiting Bangladesh on his first trip to a foreign country since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

As we look back on Bangabandhus life and struggle, I ask myself, what could our subcontinent have looked like, had this modern-day giant not been assassinated? wrote Modi.

Modi said the Bangabandhus killers wanted to reverse the gains of Bangladeshs independence, for which he had led a heroic struggle.

They also wanted to strike a mortal blow to Bangabandhus dream of building a cooperative, peaceful and harmonious subcontinent, he said.

Despite unflinching commitment to his cause, and despite all the persecutions he suffered, Bangabandhu retained a generosity of spirit that is a mark of true greatness, Modi said, adding that the Bangladeshi leaders progressive belief in fairness, equality and inclusiveness is captured in the words he wrote in the 1950s, I know at least this much: no one should be murdered because he holds views different from mine.

In him, we saw a tall leader whose vision went beyond the narrow confines of physical borders and social divisions. That is why we join our Bangladeshi sisters and brothers in celebrating Bangabandhus memory in this very special Mujib Borsho, Modi wrote.

Modi said that with Bangabandhu at the helm, Bangladesh and the region would have evolved along a very different trajectory.

A sovereign, self-confident Bangladesh, at peace with its neighbours, bearing friendship to all and malice towards none, was rising fast from the ashes of a painful war. If this had continued, perhaps India and Bangladesh could have achieved many decades ago some of the accomplishments that we were able to reach only recently, Modi said.

Citing the example of the 2015 Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh, Modi said that had Bangabandhu been at the helm longer, this achievement may have come much earlier.