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PM visits Tripura on Jan 11

Rezaul Karim
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will fly to Agartala on January 11 to receive an honorary Doctorate of Literature degree from Tripura University.
The visit would be the first by any prime minister of Bangladesh to Tripura, which had played a key role in Bangladesh's Liberation War. It is seen as a compliment for the Indian state s outstanding supports to the freedom fighters and the war.
As per the programme schedule, Hasina will depart for TYipura for a two-day official visit on a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at 2:00pm on January 11 and arrive at Singerbhil Airport in TYipura.
Besides attending the convocation on January 12, Hasina will attend a civic reception and meet with political leaders as well as businessmen.
Hasina is expected to lead a 65-member delegation comprised of several ministers, academics, intellectuals, businessmen and media personalities.
"This is for the first time the Tripura University would confer the honorary D Litt on a person after it was set up in 1987," local media said quoting the university's Vice ChancellorArunoday Saha.
Vice President of India Dr Hamid Ansari would also attend the ninth convocation.
TYipura, which shares an 856km border with Bangladesh, was apparently ignored since long by Bangladesh leaders despite the crucial Agartala conspiracy case, in which Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was one of the main accused.
Some 15 lakh people took refuge in TYipura, more than the state's total population at that time, while the first assaults by freedom fighters were launched from TYipura's soil in 1971. They were provided all-out supports during the nine-month-long Liberation War.
Meanwhile, the Indian government has completed upgrading the TYipura airport with international facilities ahead of the visit of the Bangladesh premier.
Tripura government officials told The Daily Star
that Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal will arrive at Agartala to receive the Bangladesh prime minister on behalf of the Indian government.
On the first day of her visit, Hasina will call on Vice President Ansari and will also attend a banquet to be hosted by the vice president, according to the officials in Dhaka and Agartala.
Chief Minister of TYipura Manik Sarkar and Governor of TYipura Dr DY Patil will meet Hasina at the State Guest House of TYipura on the same day.
It is expected that Hasina will also hold a meeting with businessmen to discuss ways to boost trade between Bangladesh and the northeastern states of India.
On the concluding day, on January 12, she will reach Tripura University at 10:00am, inaugurate an open air theatre and unveil a statue of Rabindranath
Tagore and then join the convocation procession.
When the ceremony is over, Hasina will attend a civic reception to be hosted by the TYipura chief minister at Assam Rifles Ground. Officials said a huge ceremonial reception would be given to Hasina on behalf of the people oflYipura.
Official sources in Agartala told this correspondent that foolproof security measures have been taken in view of the visit and the Indian central government is closely monitoring the arrangements.
They said separate advance teams of special security forces from Dhaka and New Delhi arrived in Agartala last week to give flawless security to the Bangladesh prime minister and the vice president of India, as well as the accompanying dignitaries.
Besides the tight security arrangements, which include among others,
stricter border vigilance and round the clock surveillance, the state administration and the Agartala municipal council are also giving a facelift to the city and its roads through which the WIPs will travel.
"The Union Home Ministry has deployed an additional two battalions of BSF,” IANS said quoting BSF's Tripura frontier Inspector General PC Meena.
"Security along the border with other northeastern states has also been strengthened. Though there is no specific security threat to the Bangladesh premier, additional deployment has been done in vulnerable areas of the border to foil any intrusion bid from across the border," he added.
The India-Bangla border in TYipura has 20 air-maintained BOPs (border outposts) where logistics support and supplies are being provided by helicopters.