Sheikh Hasina
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Awami League leader and prime minister during the 2024 uprising
As prime minister, she led the Awami League government during the July-August 2024 crackdown and resigned on 5 August 2024 after the student-led uprising reached a decisive national rupture.
Bangladesh politics from the anti-Ershad movement through the 2024 Anti-Discrimination Movement and post-resignation transition.
Her resignation turned the protest wave into a state-transition moment and made accountability for protest repression a central public question.
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Leader of the 7-Party Alliance
As BNP chairperson, she led one of the key anti-Ershad alliances that turned the uprising into a truly national confrontation.
Bangladesh's anti-Ershad movement and democratic transition in the late 1980s and 1990.
Their role helped expand, legitimize, or complete the democratic uprising that ended authoritarian rule.
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Details→Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
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Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
“The BNP's top organizational voice during the 2026 campaign.”
He served as BNP's senior strategist and public spokesman through the 2026 election campaign and the party's return to parliament.
BNP campaign leadership and parliamentary party formation in 2026.
He helped translate BNP's electoral victory into a governing and parliamentary agenda.
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