...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..
has warned that opposition leader
Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
would be implicated in Sunday's violence by Hefajat-e Islam as "an instigator".
The premier said Khaleda will be held responsible for the mayhem. "People have been killed and the copies of holy Koran burnt at her directives. She will be accused of giving orders."
She was speaking at a views-exchange meeting with her party's Feni district unit leaders at Gono Bhaban on Thursday.
Each and everyone involved in this notorious act will be found out by scanning video footage and brought to book, she warned.
Hasina, who heads the governing Awami League, alleged the BNP chairperson wanted to overthrow the government banking on the Hefajat and for this reason Khaleda gave a 48-hour ultimatum and asked the radical Islamist group to stay in Dhaka.