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Om Birla, Lok Sabha Speaker, to Witness Tarique Rahman’s Oath as Bangladesh PM

India’s Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will represent New Delhi at Tarique Rahman’s swearing-in as Bangladesh’s Prime Minister in Dhaka on 17 February. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited on Saturday evening but will not attend due to a prior engagement with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai on the same day.