Speaker Cancels Delhi Visit

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has cancelled her visit to New Delhi due to the recent Hindu-Muslim clashes in the Indian capital.

An official source said she has cancelled the visit as she will be busy ahead of the start of the 100 Years of Mujib celebrations.

She was scheduled to travel to New Delhi on Monday leading a nine-strong delegation at the invitation of Om Birla, the speaker of India’s Lok Sabha. 

Tarique Mahmud, a spokesman for the Parliament Secretariat said that the program was rescheduled as Shirin would be busy for Bangabandhu's birth centenary celebrations.

A new schedule of the visit would be announced after Mar 26 Independence Day, he added.

Earlier, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal had cancelled their tours to India amid violent protests over a citizenship law in the country’s northeast.

Similar protests over the law in New Delhi were followed by deadly Hindu-Muslim clashes last week.