Dhaka, Dec 14 (TIWN) Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A.K. Abdul Momen on Sunday said the "month of victory" will come up in a big way at the coming India-Bangladesh Prime Ministers Summit because it is also a victory for India as they supported Bangladesh to achieve victory in 1971 and that "we must acknowledge the contributions of the then Indian Prime Minister (Indira Gandhi)".

Bangladesh will raise all major issues, including of water and border, during the virtual meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on December 17, he said.  “We’ll raise our major issues, which we usually raise,” he told reporters at his office, adding that a number of “quick-impact” projects will be inaugurated too.  Abdul Momen recalled the contribution of the then governments of India and the UK for bringing Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was in a jail in Pakistan, back home alive in 1972, saying: “We must acknowledge it.”