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Harsh Vardhan Shringla
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Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla calls on Sri Lankan PM, discusses boosting bilateral partnership

| @indiablooms | Oct 04, 2021, at 10:01 pm

Colombo/New Delhi/UNI: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who is on an official visit to Sri Lanka, on Monday called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and had a productive discussion on further consolidating the India-Sri Lanka partnership.

The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka said in a tweet: “Foreign Secretary @harshvshringla called on HE Mahinda Rajapaksa@PresRajapaksa today and had a productive discussion on further consolidating the multifaceted India-Sri Lanka partnership.”

The High Commission put out similar tweets in Sinhala and in Tamil as well.

Shringla is also to call on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Later, along with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris and Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay, Shringla garlanded the bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Temple Trees, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

“Paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 152nd birth anniversary, which fell on 2nd Oct, Foreign Minister Prof. GL Peiris, Foreign Secretary @harshvshringla, High Commissioner of India, and other dignitaries garlanded the Gandhi bust at Temple trees,” the Indian High Commission tweeted.

On Oct 2, 2019, then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe unveiled a bronze bust of Mahatma Gandhi at his official residence 'Temple Trees'.

The bronze bust has been sculpted by the Padma Bhushan awardee Ram Vanji Sutar.

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