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Sheikh Hasina Wazed[ a] (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. [ 3][ 4] She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first president of Bangladesh. Having served for a combined total ...
August 5, 2024 at 9:40 AM. By Sudipto Ganguly. (Reuters) -Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as Bangladesh's prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of protests, has been one of the ...
There are 10 Prime Ministers, 1 Senior Minister, 5 Chief Advisers, and 1 Acting Chief Adviser of Bangladesh so far. Note that Prime Ministers are numbered either bracketless or with ( ) brackets, and Chief Advisors are numbered using [ ] brackets. Acting officeholders are not numbered and instead denoted with —. [ 2] Political parties.
Bangladesh has continuously had a female prime minister for 30 years. This is the longest unbroken tenure for a democratically elected female head of government in the world. 21% of MPs in the Jatiya Sangsad are women, the highest proportion in South Asia. [16] [17]
She was the prime minister of Bangladesh after winning a walkover 5 January 2014 election when Khaleda Zia's BNP boycotted the general election. Sheikh Hasina secured a fourth term as prime minister after winning the 2018 general election. Hasina became the longest serving Prime Minister of Bangladesh since independence.
August 5, 2024 at 6:16 AM. UPDATED: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will lead Bangladesh’s interim government following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s flight from the country amid mass ...
August 6, 2024 at 6:30 AM. DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — After Bangladesh’s prime minister resigned in the face of violent unrest, one name has emerged as a possible caretaker until new elections ...
Sheikh Hasina. Khaleda Zia. The two women have ruled Bangladesh as prime ministers since 1991. [ 25][ 26] As the third most populous Muslim-majority country, Bangladesh has been ruled, as of 2023, for the last 32 years by female Prime Ministers [ 27] by electing Khaleda Zia [ 28][ 29] and Sheikh Hasina as prime ministers.