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Sheikh Hasina Wajed (born September 28, 1947) is the President of the Bangladesh Awami League and daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She was one of only two members of her family to survive a bloody 1975 coup, as she was studying abroad in West Germany with her sister at the time. Ms. Wajed is married to Dr. Wajed, a famous nuclear physicist.
Sheikh Hasina served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh between 1996 and 2001. However, her party won only 62 seats against the BNP (http://www.bnpbd.org/) led 4 party coalition (JAMAAT (http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/)- JP - IS) in the October 2001 Parliamentary Election. Currently she is the leader of the opposition. But under her leadership, the Awami League boycotted Parliament until June 2004, when it resumed participation on a limited basis.
On August 21, 2004 Ms Wajed faced a major grenade attack while she was addressing a crowd in Dhaka. 19 people were reported killed and hundreds injured in the attack [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3586384.stm)
[2] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/bangladesh.blasts/index.html).
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