page_title: Khaleda Zia
section_title: Eponyms
hierarchical_section_title: Khaleda Zia / Eponyms
caption_attribution_description: বাংলা: দেশনেত্রী বেগম খালেদা জিয়া হল, চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়। English: Deshnetri Begum Khaleda Zia Hall, University of Chittagong
context_page_description: Khaleda Zia is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim majority countries to head a democratic government as prime minister. She was the wife of a former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman. She is the current chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party which was founded by Rahman in the late 1970s.
  After a military coup in 1982, led by Army Chief General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Zia helped lead the movement for democracy until the fall of Ershad in 1990. She became the prime minister following the BNP party win in the 1991 general election. She also served briefly in the short-lived government in 1996, when other parties had boycotted the first election. In the next round of general elections of 1996, the Awami League came to power. Her party came to power again in 2001. She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996 and 2001.
context_section_description: Begum Khaleda Zia Hall, a residential hall at Islamic University, Kushtia.
  Deshnetri Begum Khaleda Zia Hall, a residential hall at the University of Chittagong.
  Begum Khaleda Zia Hall,  a residential hall at Jahangirnagar University.
  Begum Khaleda Zia Hall, a residential hall at the University of Rajshahi.
caption: Deshnetri Begum Khaleda Zia Hall at the University of Chittagong.
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