Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during a media conference in Dhaka January 6, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's new government is set to be sworn in on Sunday, a week after the ruling party won a violence-plagued election that the opposition boycotted and amid growing international calls for a fresh and inclusive polls.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League ended with more than two-thirds of seats in a contest that was shunned by international observers as flawed and derided as a farce by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
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