Hasina sworn in for another term as Bangladeshi PM

Sheikh Hasina has been sworn in for an additional time period as Bangladesh’s prime minister, lower than per week after her ruling Awami League social gathering gained a parliamentary election marred by low voter turnout and sporadic violence.

Hasina is the primary prime minister in Bangladesh’s historical past to be elected to a fourth consecutive, and a fifth general, five-year time period.

Her foremost political rival, the Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP) of former prime minister Khaleda Zia, boycotted the election over fears of vote-rigging.

The BNP has lengthy demanded an election underneath a non-party caretaker administration however Hasina’s ruling social gathering rejected the thought as “unconstitutional”.

The 76-year outdated politician took her oath of workplace from President Mohammed Shahabuddin on the Bangabhaban palace in Dhaka.

She was joined by her new cupboard of 25 ministers and 11 state ministers.

Senior politicians, overseas diplomats and civil and navy officers attended the swearing-in ceremony, which was broadcast dwell by state-run Bangladesh Tv and personal broadcasters.

Hasina’s ruling social gathering gained 222 out of the 298 seats in parliament that had been up for election on January 7.

Elections for 2 different parliamentary constituencies had been suspended – one due to ballot violence that erupted and the opposite for the loss of life of an unbiased candidate of pure causes forward of the vote.

At the least one particular person was killed in violence on the voting day amid the boycott by the BNP and its conservative allies.

The voter turnout was 41.8 per cent in comparison with greater than 80 per cent within the 2018 elections, in line with the nation’s Election Fee.

The BNP, which had referred to as for a common strike on election day, rejected the election as farce.

The federal government dismissed the opposition’s criticism.

Hasina served beforehand as prime minister from 1996 to 2001, 2009 to 2014, 2014 to 2018 and 2019 to 2023.