India, Feb. 15 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Bangladesh's next Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, along with other regional leaders on February 17, people familiar with the matter said.

The message from Dhaka reached Indian officials late on Saturday night, just hours after top leaders of Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) suggested that regional heads would be invited to attend the ceremony, as mentioned in an earlier HT report.

It is unlikely that PM Modi will go to Dhaka since he is expected to hold a bilateral meeting in Mumbai with French President Emmanuel Macron on February 17, the people told HT on condition of anonymity.

Macron is visiting India to participate in t...