Hasina takes oath as Bangladesh PM for fourth straight term

FILE PHOTO: Sheikh Hasina, the newly elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Chairperson of Bangladesh Awami League, gspeaks during a meeting with foreign observers and journalists at the Prime Minister's residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 8, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

DHAKA (Reuters) - Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as Bangladesh's prime minister on Thursday for a straight fourth term after her party won an election boycotted by the main opposition which dismissed the vote as a sham.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), whose leaders are either in jail or in exile, stayed away from the polls after Hasina refused its demand that she resign and let a neutral authority run the general election.