She will offer prayers at Ajmer Sharif Thursday
Khaleda Zia
BNP
Chairperson Khaleda Zia will offer special prayers at the shrine of
Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer Sharif on Thursday as part
of her weeklong official tour to India.“She left New Delhi for Jaipur this (Wednesday) morning and will stay 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 after offering prayers at Ajmer Sharif, he said.
The opposition leader 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.
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) and opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BNP chief is visiting India at the invitation of the Indian government against the backdrop of the two neighbours’ failure to ink the crucial Teesta water sharing treaty despite the broad agreement between the two sides, mainly because of the opposition by Paschimbanga chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
With its decision to invite Khaleda, India is trying to dispel the impression that its diplomatic engagement and comfort level was limited to the Sheikh Hasina-led government in Bangladesh, which is going for general election in 2014.
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.
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