'Wagah of the East' eventalong India-Bangladeshborder

[Jai_Hind]

Petrapole, Nov 7: It was a Wagah-like moment at Petrapole on Wednesday as India and Bangladesh launched a joint retreat ceremony at the border
outpost.

The ceremony - including parades, march-past and lowering of the national flag of both the countries - will henceforth be a daily routine, at sundown, on the eastern border. Renditions of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam were part of the ceremony.

Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his
Bangladesh counterpart Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir inaugurated the ceremony on the eastern border, aimed at improving ties between the neighbours.

However, officials informed that symbolic to a more cordial and fast improving Indo-Bangla relationship, the Retreat at Petrapole-Benapole border will not have the aggressiveness of the exercise on the Attari-Wagah border on the West.

Bangladesh is India's largest trade partner in the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) region, comprising India, Bangladesh Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.

India-Bangladesh joint retreat ceremony launched (in pics) - News Oneindia

 

[damiendehorn]

Waste of time and resources. Who cares?

 

[[Bregs]]

Unnecessary expenditure, this is all tamasha

 

[kurup]

Even Wagah ceremony is a waste and here , we are adding one more .