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PM Narendra Modi arrives in Sri Lanka, meets President Maithripala Sirisena
- Updated: May 12, 2017
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena forward of a “International Vesak Day” celebrations where a Indian personality will be a arch guest.
“Delighted to accommodate President @MaithripalaS in Colombo,” Modi tweeted shortly after a meeting. On his part, Sirisena pronounced in a tweet: “It is smashing to accommodate this good tellurian being @narendramodi in Colombo again. Thank we for gracing #InternationalVesakDay.”
Modi, who arrived here progressing in a day on a two-day revisit to Sri Lanka, will be a arch guest during a UN-recognised 14th International Vesak Day, that is distinguished to symbol a birth, note and flitting divided of Lord Buddha. He will attend a opening rite of a Vesak Day celebrations here on Friday.
The revisit follows an invitation from Sirisena. It is Modi’s second outing to Sri Lanka as Prime Minister after Mar 2015. This is a initial time that Sri Lanka will be hosting a International Vesak Day. The thesis of a eventuality is “Buddhist teachings for amicable probity and tolerable universe peace”.
Soon after his arrival, Modi took partial in a normal flare lighting rite during a Buddhist church here as partial of a International Vesak Day celebrations. “In holy sanctum. PM @narendramodi visits Gangaramaya church @ d famous Beira Lake, lights lamps @ church on Vesak Day eve,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Gopal Baglay tweeted.
As Modi pulpy a switch, a whole formidable of a Gangaramaya temple, one of a many critical Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, was illuminated adult with charming lights, that was followed by fireworks in a sky. According to India’s state broadcaster Doordarshan, Modi, who was accompanied by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, also offering prayers during a temple.
The Gangaramaya church was determined in a late 19th century by one of a many famous academician monks, Venerable Hikkaduwe Sri Sumanagala Nayaka Thera. Its formidable comprises a temple, a “seema malaka” or public gymnasium for monks in a lifelike Beira Lake and a vocational training institute.
Modi will open an India-funded 150-bed multi-speciality sanatorium during Dickoya in a executive mountain district that is home to Tamil tea camp workers of Indian origin. The Indian Prime Minister will also urge during a Temple of a Sacred Tooth Relic during Kandy in executive Sri Lanka. The golden-roofed Kandy church houses Sri Lanka’s many critical Buddhist vestige — a tooth of Lord Buddha.
In Pallekele, Modi will betray a board commemorating a substructure laying of a Faculty of Kandyan Dance during a Sri Lankan International Buddhist Academy that will be assembled with India’s extend assistance. Although no shared talks are scheduled, a revisit is approaching to give uninformed boost to India-Sri Lanka ties. Last month, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe had visited India.