[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. 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...
yesterday alleged that the BNP-led opposition is hatching conspiracies to destroy democracy in the country in an apparent bid to foil the war crimes trial.
"They [opposition] don't want the trial of war criminals and that is why they are involved in various conspiracies to destroy democracy," the Awami League president said while addressing the sixth national council of the party's youth wing Awami Jubo League
... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League...
at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
"Democracy was hampered again and again, and we had to restore it by sacrificing blood. So, you have to remain alert so that no one can play with the fate of people, no one can distort the history of the country's Liberation War, and no one can play any new game," she said.
Hasina directed Jubo League men to remain vigilant in villages, unions and upazilas, and strengthen the organization down to grassroots level to safeguard democracy.
"It's not possible to materialise any ideology or implement anything without building a strong organization. You must strengthen Jubo League because youths are the main force of a nation," said the AL president.