Dhaka: West Bengal (WB) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will arrive in Dhaka on Friday night.  She is set to fly from Damdam airport in Kolkata at about 7:20pm by an Indian flight. 

Mamata will be accompanied by WB chief secretary Sanjay Mitra, and special secretary Goutam Sannal. They will stay in Raddison Hotel.

Mamata will be present during the exchanging event of instruments of ratification of the land boundary agreement between Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. She is scheduled to leave Dhaka on Saturday.

Modi will arrive in a two-day visit to Dhaka on Saturday.

Earlier, it was unsure whether Modi would get the Trinamool Congress chief on board in his crucial Dhaka trip.

Hindustan Times on 27 May in a report said the WB chief minister has nothing more to do after she had given consent over the land boundary pact. So, it was not necessary for Mamata to accompany Modi.   

It has been implied that Mamata’s cooperation is critical for sealing the Teesta water-sharing pact.

‘Unless it is a formal no, we cannot say it is a no,’ said an official when asked about the West Bengal chief minister’s plans, reported Hindustan Times.

In 2011, Mamata denied accompanying the then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh to Dhaka. But, things have been changing over time. Mamata’s visit may be a sign of the change.