Corruption, leadership crisis weighed down BNP

PM tells expatriates, German press about opponents' election rout

News Desk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in Germany, said BNP has only itself to blame for the election debacle as she thinks corruption, violence and leadership quandary weighed her political archrival down. Sheikh Hasina made the remarks in Munich in a press interview and her address to expatriate Bangladeshis as the question of December-30 parliament election and its outcome came up. She also reiterated her plan for retirement after serving this term as premier-her third in a row and fourth in total. This record is envious as there are only two other women who became head of government for four times-slain Indian PM Indira Gandhi and incumbent chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel. Sheikh Hasina told her audience she has only one objective in public life...  read more>>