President Kovind carries sweets, savouries for Bangladesh peer, PM

Prez Kovind with Bangladesh Prez Abdul Hamid and PM Sheikh Hasina

President Ram Nath Kovind brought with him a wide assortment of sweets, cakes and savouries prepared at the Rashtrapati Bhawan's in-house bakery for his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

He is on a three-day state visit to participate in the celebrations marking 50 years of Bangladesh's Liberation War, and the closing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary. Across India, tributes were paid to Bangladeshi freedom fighters and Indian armed forces.

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