Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Sunday welcomed the growing relationship between India and Bangladesh, hailing the historical Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) signed between the countries, as well as the bus service between Agartala and Kolkata, that will travel via Dhaka.
"[The LBA] is a positive development. This was a long-pending dispute and problem that has been sorted out. Both countries will benefit from this and the people who have been suffering since independence will primarily benefit. It will also strengthen the bonds between the people of the two countries," Sarkar told ANI.
"We have been asking the governments of both India and Bangladesh to allow the run of a bus from Agartala to Dhaka to Kolkata. It took a long time but ultimately it materialised. It is a matter of joy for all of us," he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Saturday exchanged instruments of ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) settling the 41-year-old land boundary dispute on Saturday.
The two Prime Ministers also flagged off two transboundary buses linking Guwahati to Dhaka via Shillong and Kolkata to Tripura via Dhaka.
