...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...and Syed Ashraful Islam were re-elected Awami League president and general secretary unopposed at the party's national council yesterday.
They were also given the power to choose other members of the AL central committee in clear violation of the party charter and Representation of People Order.
The AL charter mandates the councillors to elect all leaders, including a treasurer, 13 members of presidium, its highest policymaking body; 31 secretaries, including three joint general secretaries and seven organising secretaries.
The party chief can only select 26 members of its highest decision-making forum, the AL Central Working Committee.
Also as a political party registered under the RPO, the Awami League was supposed to elect the entire central committee.