Birthday of honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sheikh Hasina, the eldest child of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa, was born on this day in 1947. Today the Prime Minister has turned 73. Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League, is leading the country to the way of development and prosperity following the footprint of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The 73rd birthday of the Prime Minister will be celebrated across the country today. On September 28 in 1947, Sheikh Hasina, the eldest of the five children of Bangabandhu was born at Tungipara in Gopalganj. Sheikh Hasina spent much of her childhood in the small hamlet where she was born. She started her schooling there. When Bangabandhu was elected a legislator, his family shifted to Dhaka in 1954. She was admitted to what is now Sher-e-Bangla Girls' School and College and later to Azimpur Girls' High School from where she completed her secondary education in 1965. She was then admitted to Badrunnessa Government Girls' College. During her bachelor course, she was elected as the vice-president of the students' union of Eden Girls' College. (That time, Badrunnessa and Eden Girls' College was a single entity) Later, she enrolled on her Masters' programme at the Bengali Department of Dhaka University. As a student leader, Sheikh Hasina actively took part in the six-point movement of 1966 and the student movement of 1969 which saw the abdication of General Ayub Khan. In 1968 with the blessings of her imprisoned father Sheikh Hasina who is leading the country as the Prime Minister for the third consecutive term got married to nuclear scientist Dr Wazed Miah. During the Liberation War, Sheikh Hasina and her family were interned in a house in Dhaka. On July 27 in 1971, her first child Sajib Wazed Joy was born. Her second child Saima Wazed Hossain was born on December 9, 1972. After the assassination of her parents in 1975, Sheikh Hasina and her family were offered political asylum in India, where she stayed till 1981when she was elected as the president of the Awami League in her absence. Sheikh Hasina returned home on May 17, 1981 when she was greeted by a mammoth crowd that extended from the Airport to Farm Gate and Manik Miah Avenue and she addressed a public rally. In the 1986 parliamentary election, she was elected as parliament member from three different constituencies. After the overthrow of autocracy in1990, she was elected as the Leader of the Opposition in the House. In 1996, 21 years after her father was assassinated, Sheikh Hasina led the Awami League and helped the party assume power and became the Prime Minister for the first time. On 21 August 2004 Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader, barely escaped an attempt on her life as grenades were lobbed at an AL rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. Although she survived the attack, at least 24 people were killed and over 200 others injured. Most of them were Awami League leaders and supporters. Sheikh Hasina assumed office of the Prime Minister for the third consecutive term with a thumping victory in general elections in December 2016.