Air India to operate direct flights between Colombo and Varanasi: PM Modi in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day state visit to Sri Lanka, on Friday taken part in the International Vesak Day festivities here, the greatest celebration of Buddhists.
PM Modi, who is the chief guest, landed on Friday morning at the setting and was gotten by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the midst of customary ballyhoo.
While tending to the get-together, the Prime Minister declared that from August this year, Air India will operate direct flights between Colombo and Varanasi.
"My Tamil siblings and sisters will likewise have the capacity to visit Varanasi, the place that is known for Kashi Viswanath," PM Modi said.
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The PM guaranteed the Sri Lankans that India will be extraordinary a companion and accomplice that will bolster in country building attempts.
"Master Buddha's message is as pertinent in the 21st century as it was over two centuries back," PM Modi stated, including that "The topics of Social Justice and Sustainable World Peace, decided for the Vesak day, reverberate profoundly with Buddha's lessons."
"The greatest test to Sustainable World Peace today is not really from strife between the country states, bit it is from the mentalities, thought streams, elements and instruments established in abhor and savagery," PM affirmed.
"On Vesak let us light the lights of learning to move out of haziness; let us peer more inside and maintain nothing else except for reality," PM Modi told the Sri Lankans.
The Vesak Day denote the birth, illumination and passing without end of Lord Buddha.
The visit takes after a welcome from Sirisena. It is Modi's second trek to Sri Lanka as Prime Minister after March 2015.