On PM Modi Bangladesh itinerary: Bangabandhu memorial, Matua shrine, Satipith temple

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes to Bangladesh subsequent week, he’s prone to go to Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s memorial in Tungipara in Gopalganj district, a sacred shrine of the Matua neighborhood in Orakandi and a Satipith temple in Shikarpur. All these locations are greater than 200 km off Dhaka.
Along with the memorial, he’s prone to go to the shrine for the neighborhood and the temple on March 27 — the day of the primary part of eight-phase elections in West Bengal.
Though he arrives on March 26, he’ll fly off to Orakandi on March 27 and pay respect to Harichand Thakur, the founding father of the Matua sect, who was born there on March 11, 1812.
Matuas are a Hindu sect, the Namasudras, a scheduled caste group, and are unfold throughout the districts of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Nadia and smaller elements of Jalpaiguri, Siliguri, Cooch Behar and Bardhaman.
This neighborhood is claimed to be fairly influential in about 30 seats in West Bengal Assembly constituencies. Estimates recommend there are about 2 to three crore individuals from the neighborhood within the area.
Besides, he may also go to the Bangabandhu Memorial in Tungipara, the place Bangladesh first chief Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s father — is buried.
He may also go to “Sugandha Shaktipith” (Satipith) temple in Shikarpur in Barishal district.
Modi is ready to go to Bangladesh on March 26-27 on the invitation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hitch the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Independence of Bangladesh, the Birth Centenary of Bangabandhu, and the fiftieth yr of Bangladesh-India diplomatic ties.

There are plans of him visiting Rabindra Kuthi Bari in Kushtia (considered one of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s houses) and the ancestral dwelling of Bagha Jatin, a revolutionary chief in opposition to the British rule, in Kushtia, however sources mentioned that point is a significant component.
A supply mentioned that it’s virtually sure that he’ll go to the three locations — the Bangabandhu memorial, the Matua neighborhood shrine and the Sati pith temple, however the visits to different locations shouldn’t be but confirmed.

According to Modi’s two-day schedule, on March 26, he can pay tribute to the martyrs of the nation’s liberation battle on the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar and ship a speech on the National Parade Ground as a visitor of honour.
During the go to, Hasina and Modi will inaugurate the Bangabandhu-Bapu Digital Exhibition. They will maintain a bilateral assembly and also will inaugurate two memorial postal stamps. Modi may also meet Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid throughout the go to.