The Speaker of the UP assembly Hridya Naryan Dikshit will visit Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh on November 5 to participate in the meeting of the assembly speakers and presiding officers of the legislative assemblies of the member states of the Commonwealth parliamentary association (CPA). All the former British colonies are the members of the CPA.
Dikshit is also carrying 200 copies of the book on Bhgwadgita ``Gita revisited’ for its distribution among the delegates attending the meeting of the CPA. Dikshit is the author of this book in English. He said Bhagwad Gita represents the Indian philosophy and this philosophy was born in Uttar Pradesh.
After Dhaka, Dikshit will also visit Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. Dikshit said here on Friday that the prime objective of his foreign tour is the study of the parliamentary institutions of the Commonwealth and other countries. He said he will also meet the NRI in counties he is visiting. The principal secretary of the state assembly Pradeep Dube will also accompany the Speaker.