BANGLADESH NEWS
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now on a weeklong official tour of India, will offer special prayers at the shrine of Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer Sharif on Thursday.
“She left New Delhi for Jaipur this (Wednesday) morning and will be staying overnight there,” her Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan told the news agency over phone.
Khaleda is expected to return to New Delhi on Thursday night.
The BNP chairperson along with her entourage left Hotel Taj Palace at 10:30am (India time) for Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan State, by road with special security arrangements.
Officials received Khaleda and her entourage when they reached Jaipur at about 2:30pm. They will stay at Rambagh Palace.
The opposition leader is scheduled to attend a dinner to be hosted by the Commerce Minister of Rajasthan Rajendra Prakhar tonight.
Khaleda went to New Delhi on October 28 on a weeklong official visit to India, her first visit as the opposition leader.
She already met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, opposition leader Sushma Swaraj, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and National Security Adviser Shibshankar Menon.
Khaleda is also scheduled to meet Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, ruling Congress President Sonia Gandhi and key leaders of United Democratic Alliance (UDA).
Khaleda’s last official visit to India was in 2006 as the then prime minister of Bangladesh. She is expected to return home on November 3.
