...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 said the new government would contain "violence of the BNP-Jamaat" at any cost for restoring normality in civic life.
Hasina said she was happy to see holding of the election in a "free and fair" manner braving the threats of opposition BNP-Jamaat which announced all-out movement to resist the polls.
Briefing news hounds at her Ganabhaban residence, the premier directed the administration, and members of the army and other law enforcement agencies to contain "post-election violence and terrorism" with a strong hand.
The prime minister said she would welcome the BNP to a dialogue, provided that it would stop "violence" and abandon "militant" Jamaat which had been largely responsible for the countrywide violence.
"No constructive discussion is possible as long as the Jamaat is on its [BNP's] shoulder."
About the 11th parliamentary elections, she said: "We can come up with a solution by having talks about the next elections. For that, everyone will have to be patient, tolerant and stop all kinds of political violence."
Hasina also mentioned that BNP Chairperson
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
had lost everything -- the elections and the post of opposition leader in parliament.
She said the new government would try the BNP-Jamaat activists who were involved in the recent arson attacks and killings of common people "to resist the 10th general elections."