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'Looking forward to a wonderful day', says PM Modi on way to Anuradhapura

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ANI Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is travelling to Anuradhapura, Talaimannar and Jaffna in Sri Lanka today, said he was looking forward to a wonderful day.

"Leaving for Anuradhapura. Will also travel to Talaimannar and Jaffna today. Looking forward to a wonderful day," Narendra Modi tweeted.

Prime Minister Modi will visit Sri Lanka's Tamil heartland Jaffna, a Buddhist temple in Anuradhapura and north-western town of Talaimannar today.

He will be the first Indian Prime Minister and only the second foreign leader after British Premier David Cameron to visit Jaffna in the Northern province, where he will hand over homes built with the help of Indian assistance.

 

Some 20,000 such homes were built in Jaffna described by India as a flagship cooperation project currently in Sri Lanka.

Prime Minister Modi will also be laying the foundation stone for the iconic Jaffna Cultural Centre.

He will inaugurate the Talaimannar pier railway station and flag off Talaimannar- Medawachchiya train. India was involved in the construction of the railway track.

The Prime Minister is in Sri Lanka on the third and final leg of his five-day three-nation tour and is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Sri Lanka in 28 years.

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First Published: Mar 14 2015 | 9:33 AM IST

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