PM Modi meets Matuas in B’desh, crucial voters in WB

TIL Desk/National/Dhaka/ Recalling his visit to Bangladesh in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he had been waiting for long to visit the Orakandi Temple for many years and it has finally come true.

Addressing the Matua community in Bangladesh’s Orakandi, PM Modi said, “With the grace of Sri Sri Harichand Thakur, I have got the privilege of bowing down to this holy place of Orakandi.” Harichand Thakur, also known as Sri Sri Harichand Thakur, worked among the untouchable people of Bengal Presidency.

He formed the Matua sect of Hindus. “Who thought that the prime minister of India would come to Orakandi sometime. I feel the same today, that my thousands of millions of brothers and sisters of ‘Matua community’ who live in India, come to Orakandi,” said PM Modi.

Remembering the visit to Thakurnagar in West Bengal, the prime minister said that Matua’s brothers and sisters gave me love as a family member there. “In particular, the affinity of the ‘mother-in-law’, her blessings like a mother, have been precious moments in my life.”