Begum Khaleda Zia (Born 15 August 1945 - Opposition Leader)
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Begum Khaleda Zia (Born 15 August 1945-)
Begum Khaleda Zia (Born 15 August 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. When she took office in 1991, she was the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world (after Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1988–1990) to head a democratic government as prime minister. Khaleda Zia was the First Lady of Bangladesh during the presidency of her husband Ziaur Rahman. She is the chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) which was founded by Rahman in the late 1970s.
After a military coup in 1982, led by Army Chief General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Khaleda Zia helped lead the continuing movement for democracy until the fall of military dictator Ershad in 1990. Khaleda became prime minister following the victory of the BNP in the 1991 general election. She also served briefly in the short-lived government in 1996, when other parties had boycottedthe first election. In the next round of general elections of 1996, the Awami League came to power. Her party came to power again in 2001. She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996 and 2001.
In its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, Forbes magazine ranked Khaleda Zia at number 14 in 2004, number 29 in 2005, and number 33 in 2006.
Following her government's term end in 2006, the scheduled January 2007 elections were delayed due to political violence and in-fighting, resulting in a bloodless military takeover of the caretaker government. During its interim rule, it charged Khaleda Zia and her two sons with corruption.
For the better part of the last two decades, Khaleda's chief rival has been Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina. The two women have alternated as non-interim prime ministers since 1991.
Early Life
Zia was born to father Iskandar Majumder, a businessman, and mother Taiyaba Majumder in Dinajpur District in north-western Bangladesh. Khaleda Majumder married Ziaur Rahman in 1960, an Army officer who became the 7th President of Bangladesh in 1977. He ruled until 1981, when he was assassinated in a military coup.
Family Picture of Khaleda Zia
Political Carrer
When President Ziaur Rahman was killed, Justice Abdus Sattar became chairman of the party and Khaleda Zia the vice-chairman. When Sattar was ousted from the presidency by the military coup of 1982, Khaleda Zia was elected chairperson.[12] She thus became head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which her husband had founded in the late 1970s. She was active in opposing what she and her supporters considered the military autocracy of Ershad. During the autocratic rule of Hussain Muhammed Ershadthe Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed a seven-party alliance. Khaleda Zia was detained more than seven times because of her protests against Ershad. Khaleda Zia came to power three times. She was the longest serving Prime Minister of Bangladesh as she served for 10 years.
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