Sheikh Hasina Biography: Family, Age, Education, Political Career, Son, Father, Net worth & other details

Sheikh Hasina Biography: Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the country’s Prime Minister since 2009. Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh’s founding father and first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Sheikh Hasina is the longest-serving Prime Minister of Bangladesh, a position she held from 1996 to 2001. As of September 5, 2022, Sheikh Hasina is the longest-serving elected female head of government in the world.

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She resigned as prime minister of Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, amid a backdrop of student protests and tensions in Bangladesh.

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Sheikh Hasina Biography

Name	Sheikh Hasina
born	September 28, 1947
age	74
Political parties	Bangladesh Awami League
Other political positions	Major League Baseball (2008-Present)
husband	MA Wazed Miah (m. 1968; died 2009)
parents	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (father) Sheikh Fazlatonneza Mujib (mother)
children	Saima Wazed Hossain and Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed
educate	University of Dhaka (1973), Eden Mohila College
in office	Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Establishment of the organization	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University of Science and Technology and Maulana Bhashani University of Science and Technology

Sheikh Hasina’s family, early life, education

Sheikh Hasina was born on September 28, 1947, into a Bengali Muslim Sheikh family in Tungipara, East Bengal. Hasina’s father is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is also the founding father of Bangladesh and the country’s first president. Sheikh Hasina’s grandfather is of Iraqi Arab descent.

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Sheikh Hasina has said in several interviews that she grew up in fear because of her father’s political work. Hasina married MA Wazed Miah in 1968. He died in 2009. During the height of the violence surrounding the 1970 Pakistani elections and her father’s arrest, Sheikh Hasina lived with her grandmother. She was also active in student politics at Dhaka University.

Hasina was not in Bangladesh when her father and family were assassinated by Bangladeshi army rebels in a military coup on August 15, 1975. She was in West Germany with her husband, a nuclear physicist.

Sheikh Hasina moved to New Delhi in late 1975 and was granted asylum by India. She was barred from entering Bangladesh until she was elected leader of the Awami League on February 16, 1981, and returned on May 17, 1981.

Sheikh Hasina’s personal life

Sheikh Hasina married MA Wazed Miah in 1968. He is a Bangladeshi physicist, writer and chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. Sheikh Hasina has a son, Sajeeb Wazed, and a daughter, Saima Wazed.

Sheikh Hasina’s political career

Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996-2001)

Sheikh Hasina served as Bangladesh’s first prime minister from 1996 to 2001, becoming the first prime minister to serve a full five-year term since independence. During this period, she also signed a 30-year Ganges water-sharing treaty with the Indian government.

Second Prime Minister of Bangladesh (2009-2014)

On November 6, 2008, Sheikh Hasina returned to Bangladesh to participate in the 2008 general election. She decided to participate in the parliamentary elections with the National Party under the name of “Grand Alliance”. On December 11, 2008, Sheikh Hasina announced the National Party’s election manifesto at a press conference.

While serving as Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina successfully set up the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute suspects of genocide in Bangladesh committed by the Pakistani army and its local collaborators.

Third term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh (2014-2019)

Sheikh Hasina won a landslide victory in the 2014 general election, becoming Bangladesh’s prime minister for a second consecutive year. The election was controversial, with reports of violence in the run-up to the election and reports of a crackdown on opposition parties.

Fourth Prime Minister (2019-2024)

Sheikh Hasina won her third consecutive term and fourth as prime minister of Bangladesh when her Awami League won 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats. Opposition alliance leader Kamal Hussain called the vote a farce and refused to accept the result. Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the new headquarters of the Bangladesh Postal Service in May 2021.

She resigned on August 5, 2024, due to political tensions in the country.

Sheikh Hasina Award

Year	prize
1998	All India Peace Council presents Mother Teresa Award
1998	Mahatma Gandhi Award from the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation in Oslo, Norway
2000	Pearl S. Buck Award
2014	Recipient of the UNESCO Peace Tree Prize for its contribution to women’s empowerment and girls’ education
2009	Indira Gandhi Award
2015	Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
1999	Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Dhaka

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