...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 reiterated that the next general election will be held as per constitutional provisions and power will be handed over to the next elected government.
She was speaking at a views-exchange meeting with the leaders of Jatiya Party
...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament...
(Manju) at Gono Bhaban.
JP-Manju Chairman Anwar Hossain Manju said his party will take part in the next polls if it is held as per constitutional provisions.
"He [Manju] has assured us of joining the polls," AL Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif told The Daily Star after the meeting.
The prime minister said, "We want to ensure political stability in the country permanently. For that, we want to hold the next election in a free, fair and credible manner under an all-party polls-time government comprised of elected representatives from different political parties."