Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi Wednesday and discuss several issues of mutual interest. 

Wickremesinghe, who arrived in the national capital Tuesday on a three-day visit will also call on President Pranab Mukherjee.

Meanwhile two months after she fell ill, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will on Wednesday have her first public engagement when she meets visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe in New Delhi.

69-year-old Gandhi had suddenly taken ill on August 2 during her roadshow in Varanasi.

She was rushed to Delhi and was admitted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital first before being shifted to Sri Gangaram Hospital.

She was also treated for a shoulder injury that she had sustained.

Congress sources said Gandhi will be meeting Wickramasinghe along with former prime minister Manmohan Singh and senior Congress leader Anand Sharma. 

Wickramasinghe’s visit assumes significance as Sri Lanka was one of the four SAARC member-states which sided with India in pulling out of the SAARC summit, scheduled in Islamabad on November 9-10, following the terror attack on an army base in Uri on September 18 by Pakistan-based terrorists.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and some other diplomats will also meet the visiting dignitary. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister will address the opening plenary of the India Economic Summit in New Delhi Thursday.

World Economic Forum is hosting the annual summit which is expected to be attended by various business and political leaders including top policymakers and CEOs.

-ANI
-Agencies