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Sheikh Hasina will take the oath as prime minister of Bangladesh at a ceremony in Dhaka at 10 a.m. tomorrow. With this, Sheikh Hasina is officially the longest-serving leader in Bangladesh’s history.
The newly-elected members of Bangladesh’s Parliament will take the oath of office tomorrow, January 10. KM Abdus Salam, senior secretary of the Parliament Secretariat, spoke at a press conference in Dhaka and said that speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will administer the oath of office to the new members. Sheikh Hasina will take the oath as prime minister of Bangladesh at a ceremony in Dhaka at 10 a.m. tomorrow. With this, Sheikh Hasina is officially the longest-serving leader in Bangladesh’s history.
Meanwhile, the ruling Awami League (AL) party led by Hasina won 223 out of 298 seats in the assembly polls conducted on Sunday. With these results, there has been a straight fourth-term government since January 2009 after running the country from 1996–2001. In addition to that, the official result showed that independent candidates won 61 seats, the Jatiya Party bagged 11 seats, and other AL allies got two seats.
According to sources, the total voter turnout was recorded at 41.8%, and the polls were conducted amid mass violence and arrests of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and their supporters. In fact, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has boycotted these polls after the Awami League rejected their demands for an independent caretaker government to preside over the polls.
