India and Bangladesh want stability, love and peace instead of instability, terror and unrest in the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday as he underlined both countries want to see the world progressing through their own development.

Prime Minister Modi was speaking to the Matua community members after offering prayers at a temple in Gopalganj's Orakandi, the birthplace of Hindu mystic figure and the community's spiritual guru Harichand Thakur.

"Both India and Bangladesh want to see the world progressing through their own development. Both the countries want to see stability, love and peace instead of instability, terror and unrest in the world," Modi said.

Modi said he was waiting for this opportunity for many years and during his visit to Bangladesh in 2015, he had expressed a desire to visit Orakandi, which has come true now.

"I am feeling the same emotions as felt by the Matua community members in India after coming to Orakandi," Modi said.

Orakandi is the abode of hundreds of people from the Hindu Matua community, a large number of whom are residents of West Bengal.

Prime Minister Modi announced that India will upgrade one girls' middle school and set up a primary school in Orakandi, from where Harichand Thakur disseminated his pious message.

He said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, India and Bangladesh proved their capabilities.

"Both nations are facing this pandemic strongly and fighting it together. India is working by considering that it is its duty that the 'Made in India' vaccine reaches the citizens of Bangladesh," Modi added.

Analysts said Modi's planned temple visits carry political significance at the time of the ongoing Assembly elections in West Bengal.

Modi was accompanied by BJP MP Shantanu Thakur.