Assam: On a eight-day visit to India, the King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck accompanied by senior officials of the Royal Government of Bhutan arrived at Guwahati in Assam on November 3. Chief Minister (C.M.) of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma welcomed the King at the Guwahati airport.

Welcoming the King, Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Arindam Bagchi posted on the social media platform X (formerly known Twitter), "A warm welcome to His Majesty the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on his first official visit to Assam. Welcomed by C.M.@himantabiswa at the Guwahati airport."


Taking X, Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma also wrote, "On behalf of the people of Assam, I am elated to welcome His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan. Under the guidance of our Hon’ble Prime Minister, we look forward to the strengthening of the special relationship between our two countries."


CM also posted on X in Assamese language, "ཨ་སམ་གི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་གིས་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་ཞབས་འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བཀྲིན་དགའ་ཚོར་དང་དགའ་ཚོར་གྱི་ཐོག་ལས་འབྱོན་པ་ལེགས་སོ་ཞུ་གནང་

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Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck received warm welcome from India and Assam. The Chief Minister hoped that the visit of the King of Bhutan to Assam from November 3 to 5 will further strengthen the partnership between two countries. This visit will also open the new doot opportunities.


The people of Assam accorded a warm welcome to His Majesty, the King of Bhutan at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (LGBI) in Guwahati.

The people of Assam also welcomed Bhutanese King's cavalcade by traditional folk dance and music in Guwahati.


Chief Minister of Assam posted on X: "For millennia, the exchange of scholars has been a cornerstone of the warm friendship between Bharat and Bhutan. Assam's doors are perpetually open to Bhutanese students. It was a pleasure to engage with them today."

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called on the King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck today and discussed bilateral cooperation between two countries. CM conveyed the enthusiasm among people of both countries to strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi's doctrine of Neighbourhood First.


Posting on X, C.M. wrote, "I had the privilege to call upon His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, in Guwahati. We have benefited immensely from His Majesty’s vision. I conveyed the enthusiasm among our people to strengthen Hon’ble Prime Minister’s doctrine of Neighbourhood First."


The King of Bhutan will meet the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit.

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and senior officials of Government of India will also meet the King of Bhutan.

During his eight-day visit, His Majesty the King of Bhutan will also visit Maharashtra.

"India and Bhutan enjoy unique ties of friendship and cooperation, which are characterized by understanding and mutual trust. The visit would provide an opportunity to both the sides to review the entire gamut of bilateral cooperation and to further advance the exemplary bilateral partnership, across diverse sectors", the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had said in its statement on November 2.

After becoming the Prime Minister in 2014, Mr. Modi had made his first foreign trip to Bhutan.

"India is associated with the progress and happiness of Bhutan and will continue to do so. The two countries are made for each other. The colour of our passports may vary, but our heritage and values remain the same", addressing the Royal banquet in Thimphu, Prime Minister Modi had said in June, 2014.

PM Modi had posted on X on June 14, 2014 and wrote, "Bhutan & India share a very special relationship that has stood the test of time. Thus, Bhutan was a

natural choice for my 1st visit abroad."