Khaleda Zia reaches Dhaka
NTV Online
Sylhet: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia reaches Dhaka from Sylhet in the early hours of Tuesday after offering fateha at the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal and Hazrat Shah Paran (RA) as a Dhaka court is set to deliver verdict on Thursday in a graft case against her.
The BNP cheif reached at her Gulshan residence at about 4:15am.
She started for the capital from the Sylhet Circuit House around 9:45pm on Monday.
Earlier, the BNP chief offered fateha at the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal and Hazrat Shah Paran (RA) in the evening.
She went to the mazar of Hazrat Shahjalal in the city around 6:00pm and performed Maghrib prayers at a room reserved for women there. She also offered fateha and a munajat at the mazar.
Later, Khaleda went to the shrine of Hazrat Shah Paran at Khadimnagar, 7km away from the city, around 7:20pm.
The BNP chief offered fateha and also a munajat there, and then returned to Sylhet Circuit House.
The BNP chief who started her journey for Sylhet from her Gulshan residence in the capital by road around 9:15am reached the Sylhet Circuit House around 4:30pm.
After taking lunch and rest for a while at the Circuit House, she resumed her journey for the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal.
But it took her nearly 50 minutes to reach the mazar, a 2-km journey, as hundreds of people stood on both sides of the road welcoming her.
Meanwhile, on her way to Sylhet, a group of people shouted slogans in favour of Awami League and its election symbol
‘boat’ and showed shoes and sandals while Khaleda’s motorcade was crossing Narsingdi’s Bhelanagr around 11:20am.
They also tried to attack a car of Jubo Dal central leader Mahbubul Hasan Pinku but police resisted them.
Huge law enforcers were seen deployed at different important points on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway over Khaleda’s Sylhet tour.
Khaleda last visited Sylhet on October 4, 2013 and addressed a rally of BNP-led 20-party alliance there.
The Special Court-5 in Dhaka on Thursday fixed February 8 to deliver its verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case filed against Khaleda and five others.