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Bangladesh
Syed Ashraf: High time for 3rd generation of Bangabandhu’s family to join politics
2016-10-23
[Dhaka Tribune] In an exclusive interview with the Bangla Tribune, the ruling party's general secretary talks about the upcoming Awami League council, his performance as the party's general secretary, his party's future direction, and his own goal

Awami League General Secretary and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam thinks that it is the right time to join politics for someone coming from the third generation of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s family and there is a probability of happening so.

He said: "Third generation of Bangabandhu’s family can certainly join politics. A new leader means new thoughts and creations, new strategies and promises."

Syed Ashraf made the comment Tuesday in an exclusive interview with Bangla Tribune at his government residence at Bailey Road in Dhaka. Asraf was elected AL’s Joint General Secretary in 2002 and General Secretary twice in 2009 and 2012. During the reign of army-backed caretaker government, he led the movement to free the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...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..
from jail when a faction of the party challenged detained Sheikh Hasina’s leadership. Former President Zillur Rahman and Syed Ashraf at that time saved AL from being divided. Prior to that, during 1996-2001 AL reign, he was the state Minister for Aviation and Tourism. He is the son of Bangladesh’s first Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam.
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