The BNP chairperson left Dhaka on Monday morning for Sylhet and reached there in the afternoon. Local leaders of the party, including Sylhet City Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury and BNP district unit president Abul Kaher Chowdhury Shamim, welcomed her at Sylhet Circuit House. She offered prayers at Hazrat Shahjalal’s shrine at Darga Mahalla in the evening. Then she went to the shrine of Hazrat Shah Paran, some seven kilometres from the city. Khaleda visited Sylhet for the last time in October 2013, before the 10th parliamentary elections.

Source: bd News24 February 05, 2018 15:33 UTC