Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President J. P Nadda on Monday said the BJP and the Bangladesh Awami League will work for greater interest in the South Asian region.

“The BJP has a historic relation with the Awami League for a long time and we want to carry forward our relation by strengthening party level contacts in the days to come,” he said when a five-member AL delegation held a meeting with the BJP president at his residence in New Delhi.

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AL Presidium Member and Agriculture Minister Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque MP led the Bangladesh delegation while AL Joint-General Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr. Hassan Mahmood MP, party’s Organising Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Aroma Dutta MP and Prof. Marina Jahan MP attended the meeting, according to the Bangladesh Mission in New Delhi.

In the meeting they discussed a wide range of issues including political stability in the region, Bangladesh’s economic development, curbing militancy and India-Bangladesh relations as well.

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Nadda said India has a historic as well as emotional relation with Bangladesh from the very inception of the country in 1971 through War of Liberation.

On Bangladesh-India relations, he said the relations between the two countries reached a new height during the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina.

He mentioned that the long standing Bangladesh-India Land Boundary and Maritime Disputes and crisis in the Indian North-Eastern states were solved during the tenure of the two premiers.

The BJP President also mentioned with gratitude that the crisis in India's North-Eastern states were resolved due to the pro-active initiative of the present AL government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

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Hailing the present economic development in Bangladesh, he said that Bangladesh achieved a tremendous success in the country’s socio-economic sectors in the region, which is considered as an example for other countries.

Dr Hasan Mahmood said the meeting, which lasted for more than one and a half hours, was held in a ‘very cordial atmosphere’.

They discussed so many issues with the BJP President, he said.

“The Awami League and the BJP have been enjoying a very good relationship and we both are solving so many outstanding issues in party and even in government levels through discussion,” he added.

He hoped that the relations will continue in the future too.

The Bangladesh delegation held a formal meeting with the BJP at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi.

BJP General Secretary Vinod Twade and Bangladesh delegation chief Dr. Abdur Razzaque led their respective delegation.

During the meeting, they also discussed a wide range of issues including how to strengthen the party level relations further with the exchange of party delegation level visits for the betterment of the parties as well as the countries.

Later, the Awami League held a formal meeting with the Indian Minister for External Affairs Dr. Jaishankar and discussed various issues at the Parliament House.