Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the first President of Bangladesh and the second Prime Minister of the country. His wife's name was Sheikh Fazilatunesha Mujib. He and his family were murdered in 1975. He had five children.
About 300 people have died in the anti-government protests that have been going on for about a month in Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina is being blamed for this death and the protesters are demanding punishment. Let's talk about Sheikh Hasina's family.
Among the five children, the eldest daughter was Sheikh Hasina, the second Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal, Sheikh Rehana and the youngest Sheikh Rasal. So today let us talk about Sheikh Hasina's family.
Sheikh Hasina Wazed was born on 28 September 1947. who is a Bangladeshi former politician who served as the tenth Prime Minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024.
After anti-government protests in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to leave the country and come to India. Even the army did not support them during the crisis.
Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder and first president of Bangladesh. Having served for a total of over 20 years, he is the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Bangladesh. She came to India from Bangladesh in 2024 after violent protests.
Hasina became Prime Minister after the June 1996 elections. Hasina was born on 28 September 1947 in a Bengali Muslim Sheikh family in Tungipara, East Bengal. His father was the Bengali nationalist leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his mother was Begum Fazilatunesha Mujib.
Hasina grew up under the care of her mother and grandmother during her childhood in Tungipara. When his father became a government minister in 1954, he lived at 3 Minto Road. In the 1950s, her father also worked in an insurance company apart from his political career. Haseena and her siblings spent little time with their father due to his involvement in politics.
Sheikh Hasina studied in primary school in her village Tungipara. Studied at Azimpur Girls School and Begum Badrunnessa Girls College. Enrolled in Eden College for a bachelor's degree. She was elected Vice-President of the Student Union at Eden College between 1966 and 1967.
In 1967, Hasina completed her M.A. Married to Wazed Mia, a scientist. Hasina studied Bengali literature at Dhaka University, from which she graduated in 1973.
It was 15 August 1975, when his house was surrounded and indiscriminate firing killed Mujibur Rahman, his wife, son, daughter-in-law and 10-year-old son. His two daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, were in Germany at the time of the incident, so they survived.
Sheikh Hasina married MA Wazed Mian in 1967, who died in 2009. He was the former chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission.
Sheikh Hasina has two children, Sajib Wajed and Saima Wajed. Apart from being a businessman by profession, Sajib was also an Information and Communication Technology consultant to the government. While his daughter is a psychologist
After losing her family, she stayed in Germany for a few days. However, the Indira Gandhi government granted him asylum in India. She lived with her sister in Delhi for about 6 years. After her return to Bangladesh, there have been several assassination attempts on Hasina.
