...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
's statement that ruled out the possibility of holding talks to resolve the political crisis, the BNP on Saturday has warned of waging war against the government if it does not respond to the call of dialogue.
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi uttered the warning while addressing a press briefing at party's Nayapaltan headquarters in the capital on Saturday.