Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa arrives in New Delhi

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New Delhi : Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in New Delhi on February 7, 2020, evening. He is on a State visit to India from February 8 to 11, 2020, at the invitation of  PM Narendra Modi.

The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is here  with a high level delegation. February 8 is the main engagement day when he will hold delegation level talks with Prime Minister Modi. He will also call on the President of India and in the morning External Affairs Minister will call on the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

After his official engagements in Delhi, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister will travel to Varanasi, Sarnath, Bodh Gaya, and Tirupati before he gets back to Colombo. There has been a series of high level visits between the two countries. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa chose India as the first destination to visit after he assumed his position as the President of Sri Lanka immediately after his election victory, according to a PIB release.