Rashtrapati Bhavan withdraws email on Bangladesh PM visit

An e mail to the media by the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday (August 21, 2026) briefly created the impression that the long-under-discussion go to of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman would happen quickly. The e-mail despatched within the afternoon was headlined, “No change of guard ceremony this Saturday”. 

“The Change of Guard Ceremony on the Forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan is not going to happen this Saturday (August 22, 2026) as a result of full rehearsal for the ceremonial welcome of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh,” mentioned the e-mail that was issued within the title of Navika Gupta, Deputy Press Secretary to the President of India. The e-mail created the impression {that a} go to by Mr. Rahman is imminent.

Nevertheless, quickly one other launch got here from the Rashtrapati Bhavan negating the earlier be aware, saying, “A press launch issued on the topic ‘No change of guard ceremony this Saturday’, which was issued on August 21, 2026, stands withdrawn.”

These two bulletins added to the thrill round Mr. Rahman’s go to plans for New Delhi, as the 2 sides had been in talks on it. The plans reportedly bumped into hassle after Bangladesh demanded that India create “propitious” circumstances for the go to by extraditing deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the suspected killers of radical scholar chief Osman Hadi.