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“Rewind just a few months and Tarique Rahman was living a carefree life of exile in leafy southwest London. But the 2024 ousting of Bangladesh’s autocratic Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina propelled the 57-year-old scion from opposition agitator to national leader in waiting -- a destiny he fulfilled in February by winning an electoral landslide after 17 years estranged from his homeland,” wrote Time Magazine in his profile.

Tarique Rahman’s victory came just days after the death of his mother, Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister. Still grieving, he told TIME in January that he would focus on uniting the country’s 175 million people and reviving South Asia’s second‑largest economy.

Bangladesh is struggling with high inflation and youth unemployment, while ties with India have hit a historic low. All of these problems need urgent solutions, Time noted.

“Corruption allegations from the aughts (albeit since quashed by the courts) may mean any honeymoon period will be shorter than most. But after so many years in the wilderness, he’s determined not to waste any more time.”

“We need to work together,” Tarique told Time, “so that people can have their political rights.”