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Sheikh Hasina is the Hon'ble Prime Minister of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
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After the landslide victory of the Awami League in the general elections held on 5 January 2014, Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh for the third time on 12 January.

On 23 June 1996, he became the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Awami League under his leadership won a single majority in the June 12 parliamentary elections that year.

In the 2001 general election, his party, the Awami League, was defeated by a conspiracy by the then caretaker government. Sheikh Hasina was elected Leader of the Opposition. When the BNP-Jamaat government complicated the transfer of power in 2008, a military-backed caretaker government took power. After being in power for almost 2 years, that government organized the 9th National Assembly elections on 29 December 2008. In this election, the Bangladesh Awami League-led grand alliance won an absolute majority. Sheikh Hasina became the Prime Minister for the second time on January 8, 2009.

Earlier, in the general elections held in 1986, Sheikh Hasina was elected Member of Parliament from 3 parliamentary seats. He served as the Leader of the Opposition and played a leading role in establishing democracy in the country. After this election, the constitutional process started by withdrawing martial law from the country. Sheikh Hasina led the historic mass movement of the nineties and in the face of this movement the Ershad government was forced to resign on 6 December 1990.

In the 1991 parliamentary elections, Sheikh Hasina was elected Leader of the Opposition in the Fifth National Assembly. He organized all, including the political parties, to change the system of government ruled by the President and reintroduce the parliamentary system of government.

He formed a mass movement against the BNP's voterless elections in 1996. In the face of this movement, the then Khaleda Zia government was forced to resign on 30 March.

Sheikh Hasina has always been uncompromising in combating fundamentalism, militancy and terrorism. In 2009, his government took over the reins of government and enacted legislation in 1971 to establish an International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes against humanity. The tribunal set up under the Act has started trial of war criminals and the verdict is being executed.

Sheikh Hasina is the eldest of five children of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib. He was born on 26 September 1947 in Tungipara of Gopalganj district.

Sheikh Hasina graduated from Dhaka University in 1973. She contested the election as a candidate of Bangladesh Chhatra League and was the vice-president of the student union of Government Intermediate Girls College. He was the general secretary of Chhatra League, the branch of this college, and the president the following year. Sheikh Hasina was a member of the Dhaka University BCL and general secretary of the Rokeya Hall branch of the BCL. From her student days, Sheikh Hasina actively participated in all mass movements.

On 15 August 1975, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was brutally murdered along with most of his family members. Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana survived by staying in West Germany at the time. He later stayed in India for 6 years under political asylum. He started the anti-authoritarian movement from England in 1960.

In 1981, in the absence of Sheikh Hasina, he was unanimously elected President of the Bangladesh Awami League. After six years of exile, he finally returned to the country on May 17, 1971.

Shortly after returning to the country in 1971 and fighting for the restoration of democracy, he fell into the wrath of the ruling class. He was repeatedly imprisoned. He was assassinated at least 19 times.

On 15 February 1983, the military government detained him and detained him for 15 days. He was placed under house arrest twice, in February and November 1984. He was arrested on March 2, 1975 and kept under house arrest for about 3 months. He was under house arrest for 15 days from October 15, 1986. He was arrested on November 11, 1986 and detained for one month. Sheikh Hasina was arrested on 26 February 1989 and placed under house arrest. On 26 November 1990, Sheikh Hasina was interned at Bangabandhu Bhaban. On July 17, 2006, the military-backed caretaker government arrested him and sent him to a sub-jail on the premises of the parliament building. He was released on June 11, 2006, almost a year later.

Among the notable attacks aimed at assassinating Sheikh Hasina was the firing on police during the siege of the Secretariat on November 10, 1986. Juba League leaders Nur Hossain, Babul and Fattah were killed. An attempt was made to lift him and his car with a crane in front of the National Press Club. On January 24, 1987, the police force of the Ershad government targeted Sheikh Hasina in front of the Chittagong Court Building and fired batons. Although Sheikh Hasina was unhurt in the incident, 30 Awami League leaders and activists were martyred. He was shot twice while delivering a speech at Laldighi Maidan. On the way back after the rally, his car was again noticed and shot at.

After the formation of the BNP government in 1991, Sheikh Hasina was repeatedly attacked for her assassination. He was shot dead during the by-elections to the National Assembly on September 11, 1991. In 1994, his car was spotted at Ishwardi railway station. In 2000, two bombs weighing 6 kg and 64 kg were placed on the helipad at Kotalipara and at the public meeting place of Sheikh Hasina. Sheikh Hasina survived as the bombs were identified before she arrived. The deadliest attack during the BNP rule was on August 21, 2004. More than a dozen Argus grenades were hurled at him shortly after he had finished his speech at a public meeting on Bangabandhu Avenue that day. Although Sheikh Hasina survived the horrific attack, 22 leaders and activists of her party, including Ivy Rahman, were killed and more than 500 people were injured. Sheikh Hasina herself was hit in the ear.

Ignoring hundreds of obstacles and death threats, Sheikh Hasina has continued her struggle for the realization of the basic rights of the people and the rice-vote. Under his leadership, the people of Bangladesh have achieved democracy and freedom of speech. Bangladesh has got the status of a low-middle income country. Thanks to the immense sacrifice of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh has been able to stand tall in the world today.