Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka on Thursday, ending a 17-year exile in Britain, and is favored to become prime minister.
Dec. 25 Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka on Thursday after ending a 17-year exile in Britain and is among the favorites to become the nation’s next prime minister.
Rahman, 60, leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and continued doing so from afar during his exile, but he now is leading it from within Bangladesh and ahead of February’s parliamentary elections, The New York Times reported.
Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in exile in India after her Awami League party was overthrown and outlawed in 2024.
