...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..
yesterday sought vote for the Awami League in the next election and cautioned the countrymen about the return to power of BNP-Jamaat "who want to lead the country towards destruction."
"If the BNP-Jamaat returns to power they will stop the trial of the war criminals. They also don't want the victory that we've gained under the leadership of our father of the nation," she said at a mammoth public rally at Islampur Health Institute Ground in Islampur upazila in the afternoon.
Hasina said: "The BNP-Jamaat does not understand anything except for killing, looting, corruption, bombing, grenade attack, killing police, and violating mothers and sisters.
"They always obstruct the country's development as they want the destruction of the country."
In a scathing attack on the opposition leader's "relentless falsehood", Hasina alleged that before the general election in 1996,
Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
used to say there would be no "azan" in the mosques if the Awami League was voted to power.
"But that proved false.
"I seek vote for the Awami League....we've initiated the trial of the war criminals and the trial will continue and Insha-Allah, we'll complete the trial. Otherwise, they [BNP-Jamaat] will stop the trial," she said, urging the audience to pledge to vote for her party.