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Monday, December 31, 2018

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina - All You Need To Know

Hasina served as prime minister from 1996 to 2001, after defeating her archrival Khaleda Zia, who eventually regained power in 2001.

In 1990, the two female politicians, nicknamed the "battling begums", forged an unlikely alliance in order to overthrow military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

However, their mutual dislike and distrust, played out by supporters in violent street protests, was blamed for the January 2007 crisis that prompted the military to step in, impose military rule and install a caretaker government.

Both women were arrested and jailed by the then army-backed interim government as part of its crackdown on corruption

Hasina and Khaleda Zia were both eventually released in order to take part in the poll

In 1975, most of her family members were killed in a coup, including her mother, three brothers and her father, the then president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the country in its liberation struggle against Pakistan in 1971.

Hasina and her sister were abroad at the time of the 1975 assassinations

In August 2004, she survived yet another assassination attempt at a political rally. The grenade attack left more than 20 people dead and her car was peppered with bullets as she fled the scene

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina casts her vote in the morning during the general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 30, 2018.
Hasina's Awami League (AL) party is on course to get an absolute majority in the 350-seat parliament, called as Jatiya Sangsad in the 2018 Bangladesh General Eletion held on Sunday Dec 30,2018

 Fifty seats are reserved for women.

The Awami League is Bangladesh's oldest party and was formed in 1948 after the foundation of East Pakistan - as the country was known before gaining independence from Pakistan. The party is widely regarded as being broadly pro-India.

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