Sylhet: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia left here for Dhaka on Monday night 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.

She started for the capital from the Sylhet Circuit House around 9:45pm.

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 6pm 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 11:20 am.

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.