Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be among a host of dignitaries scheduled to arrive here Tuesday to pay their last respects to Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu.
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will represent the central government, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) West Bengal state secretary Biman Bose [...]
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Sheikh Hasina, Sonia Gandhi to attend Basu’s last journey
January 18th, 2010 |
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Bangladesh parliament mourns Basu’s death
January 18th, 2010 |
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Bangladesh parliament has passed a unanimous resolution paying tributes to Indian Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu who died Sunday and recalled his contribution to the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to fly Tuesday to Kolkata to pay respects to Basu, who had known her father, former president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
During [...]