Why PM Modi’s Bangladesh visit is linked to Bengal Assembly elections?

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands in Dhaka on March 26, a day after campaigning for the first phase of West Bengal Assembly election ends. He is scheduled to visit Matua temple at Orakandi, around 200 km from Dhaka on March 27, when Bengal votes in the first of the eight phases of assembly polls.