CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury calls on Hasina

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today lauded Indian parliament's ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) during her talks with the newly elected CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury who called on her here.
"She (Hasina) thanked India again for the LBA ratification as Yechury called on her," the premier's press secretary Shamim Chowdhury told reporters after nearly an hour long meeting between the two leaders at PM's residence.
Earlier this month, Indian Parliament had passed a historic constitution amendment bill seeking to settle India's 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh. The bill will operationalise the 1974 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary agreement that provides for exchange of 161 enclaves adversely-held by the the two countries.

Chowdhury said Prime Minister Hasina stressed on more cooperation among the countries in South Asia while the CPI-M general secretary appreciated Bangladesh's role for improving regional ties and praised its prompt response following the recent deadly earthquake in Nepal.
Yechury, also the parliamentary group leader of CPI-M, arrived here today on a two-day visit to join an international conference titled 'combating fundamentalism and imperialism in South Asia' being hosted by Bangladesh Workers Party tomorrow, coinciding with the 100th birth anniversary of its founder Amol Bose.
Workers Party is an ally of Prime Minister Hasina's Awami League-led centre-left grand alliance government with its president Rashed Khan Menon being a senior member of the cabinet with the portfolio of the civil aviation ministry.

Leaders of several other left leaning parties of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal have also rallied in Bangladesh capital to join the conference, also being attended by the leftist organisations in the country.