...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 BNP chief does not know any other politics except politics of destruction.
"Begum Zia is a queen of destruction. She knows only destruction. She can only take, but can't give anything to the country except for terrorism and militancy," the PM told a mammoth rally at Charghat High School ground in the afternoon.
The BNP, she said, has been cursed by a humiliating failure as it waged a hollow movement. "This is yet another failure in her [Khaleda's] life after dozens of similar ones in the past, including the failure she had experienced in her matriculation exams," added the premier.
BNP's coming to power means "return of terrorism and militancy" in the country. The party had caused a reign of terror when it was in power from 2001 to 2006, complained Hasina.
"They had created dreadful Bangla Bhai and fomented widespread militancy during that period," she added.
Before the January 5 parliamentary polls, said the PM, the BNP had announced that it would not allow holding the elections, knowing well that people are the owners of their rights of franchise. "The party was out to resist the polls through enforcing hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
s and blockades. But the people didn't respond to their movement," she noted.
She accused the BNP of taking a "beastly Dire Revenge™" on people by burning them to death as they did not respond to its movement. The party killed 135 people by enforcing blockades for 34 days, mentioned the PM.
Also the president of Awami League, Hasina referred to a recent survey by the US-based Democracy International. It showed that the AL would have won the January 5 polls by at least a 5.8 percent margin even if the BNP-Jamaat had contested the elections.
"This proves that the BNP would have suffered a sure defeat. Knowing well about its bad luck, this party didn't join the polls race," she said.