Modi invites Bangladesh’s PM Tarique Rahman

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met Tarique Rahman on Tuesday and handed over a letter by Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting Bangladesh’s newly sworn-in prime minister to India. Additionally, Birla also spoke to Rahman over call and conveyed PM Modi’s congratulations.

The letter from PM Modi read, “I extend my warmest congratulations to you on the victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party at the just-concluded parliamentary elections in Bangladesh and on your appointment as the next Prime Minister of Bangladesh.”

PM Modi’s letter also extended an invitation to Rahman, his wife Dr Zubaida and his daughter Zaima to visit India at a “mutually convenient time”.

“A warm welcome awaits you in India,” he added in the congratulatory letter.

Earlier, the interim government of Bangladesh, headed by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, invited PM Modi to the swearing-in ceremony of Rahman. However, citing prior commitments in Mumbai on the same day with French President Emmanuel Macron, PM Modi declined the invitation.(updated on 17th Feb 2026)