India's ruling Congress party president Sonia Gandhi is set to receive an award on behalf of her late mother-in-law and assassinated Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi for her 'tremendous support' for Bangladesh's 1971 independence as she is expected to visit Dhaka later this month.
'Being a family member (of Indira Gandhi) she (Sonia Gandhi) is expected to receive the award,' Bangladesh's foreign minister Dipu Moni told a joint press briefing with Indian external affairs minister SM Krishna.
She added: 'Indira Gandhi's name comes at the top of the list of our foreign friends in 1971.'
Moni's comments came as Sonia Gandhi is due to be in Dhaka in the last week of July also to join a regional conference on autism at prime minister Sheikh Hasina's invitation.
Officials familiar with the process earlier said the country was also set to name a major road of the capital after Indira Gandhi as part of a government initiative to honour the country's foreign friends who contributed to its 1971 emergence as an independent nation after nine months of liberation war against Pakistan.
They said Bangladesh so far listed 500 '1971 foreign friends', who would be honoured at a ceremony in Dhaka on a convenient date ahead of the 41st victory day on December 16 this year.
Source : New Age
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