Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cancelled his trip to Bangladesh after three coronavirus cases were detected in the neighbouring country, sources said.
According to report by ANI , as per the schedule , Modi was expected to attend the grand inaugural ceremony of the birth centenary celebrations of Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhaka on March 17.
However, Bangladesh decided to postpone the grand inaugural ceremony in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.
The year-long celebrations were scheduled to open amid massive festivities at the National Parade Ground in Dhaka on March 17 and was expected to be attended by several foreign dignitaries, including Modi.
“The planned celebrations for the Mujib Year have been rearranged in view of worldwide outbreak of coronavirus,” foreign minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters .
“We will convey about the rearrangement of the planned opening of the celebrations to the foreign dignitaries, leaving it to them if they would come,” he said.
Prime Minister Sheikh directed the organisers to scale down the planned festivities, but the new venue for the inauguration of the celebrations is yet to be decided, chief coordinator of the celebration committee Kamal Abdul Naser told reporters.
