...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 her government would restore the provision of the original constitution to make the apex court judges accountable to the legislature, authorising the Jatiya Sangsad to impeach the judges for misconduct and violation of rules.
The 1972 constitution had the provision to make the judiciary accountable to parliament (subjected to vote of two-thirds majority), but military ruler General Ziaur Rahman changed the provision, changing Article 96 of the constitution.