Bhutan PM Tshering Togbay To Be On 5-Day Visit To India In First Foreign Trip After Assuming Office

In his first foreign trip after assuming office, Prime Minister Tshering Togbay's will be on a five-day visit to India starting tomorrow.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Togbay will be on a 5-day visit to India starting Thursday

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Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Togbay will be on a five-day state visit to India starting Thursday in his first foreign trip after assuming the top office in January. He is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will be calling on President Droupadi Murmu. 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and other Indian dignitaries will call on PM Togbay, according to a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs. 

The delegation which would accompany the Butanese PM's delegation will include the Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment and senior officials from the Royal Government of Bhutan. 

During his India visit, Togbay will also visit Mumbai. 

The visit of the Prime Minister of Bhutan will provide an opportunity to the two sides to review the progress in the unique partnership and to discuss ways and means to expand the enduring ties of friendship and cooperation between India and Bhutan, said the MEA in its statement. 

In January this year, Togbay, chief of the People's Democratic Party drove the party to win the parliamentary elections in the Himalayan nation securing 30 out of the 47 National Assembly seats. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent congratulatory message to PM Togbay after his victory. 

"Heartiest congratulations to my friend Tshering Tobgay and the People’s Democratic Party for winning the parliamentary elections in Bhutan," Modi had said in a post on X. 

Bhutan serves as a strategic location, between India and China, and has been attracting the attention of both the countries each striving for influence in this landlocked nation of approximately 800,000 inhabitants.