The prime minister and the cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Parliament, to their political party and ultimately to the electorate.

In each of these periods, the national government leadership was controlled by the military with the executive authority of the president and the prime minister.

The system was scrapped in 2011 by the 15th amendment of the constitution to allow any political government to conduct a general election in the future.

[2][3] Sheikh Hasina was the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history until her forced resignation on 5 August 2024, which left the position vacant.

I shall preserve, support, and secure the constitution and deal with all with equity as suggested by laws, without being affected by fear or mercy, love or hatred.The office of the prime minister is located at Tejgaon in Dhaka city.

The nascent democratic institutions foundered in the face of military intervention in 1958, and the government imposed martial law between 1958 and 1962 and again between 1969 and 1971.

On 12 June 1996 polls, BNP lost to Hasina's Awami League but emerged as the largest opposition party in the country's parliamentary history with 116 seats.

Khaleda led four-party alliance won only 32 seats and emerged as the smallest opposition party in the country's parliamentary history.

The Awami League and its allies protested, saying that the elections would not be fair because of alleged bias by the caretaker government in favour of Khaleda Zia and the BNP.

Hasina demanded that the head of the caretaker government, President Iajuddin Ahmed, step down from that position, and on 3 January 2007, she announced that the Awami League and its allies would boycott the elections.

For a country widely perceived as one of the world's most corrupt, the most dramatic aspect of Fakhruddin Ahmed's rule is his antigraft campaign against the establishment.

So far, more than 160 senior politicians, top civil servants and security officials have been arrested on suspicion of graft and other economic crimes.

On 11 May 2017, the Office of Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina Wazed announced that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton called her office in March 2011 to demand that Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner, be restored to his role as chairman of microcredit bank, Grameen Bank.

[8][9] Sheikh Hasina lost to Khaleda Zia in the 1991 parliamentary election after managing to win 88 seats and her party sat in opposition benches.

Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League rejected the results, claiming that the election was rigged with the help of the president and the caretaker government.

In the December 2008 election, the Sheikh Hasina–led Awami League got a landslide victory, winning 230 seats, which gave them the two-thirds majority in the parliament.

After nationwide protests against the Awami League government, on 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee from Bangladesh[10][11][12] to India.