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Ganabhaban
The Ganabhaban (Bengali: গণভবন, lit. 'People's House', also spelt Gonobhaban) located in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, north of the National Parliament House, served as the official residence of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina until the fall of her government. In the aftermath of the July uprising in 2024, the residence is undergoing transformation into a museum, to be named the July Uprising Memorial Museum.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, after switching from presidency to premiership following the independence of Bangladesh and founding of a parliamentary government, used to have his office at what was known as the "President's House" (later more commonly "Sugandha Bhaban" and officially "State Guest House Sugandha"), which he referred to as the "Ganabhaban", meaning "People's House", and now serves as the Foreign Service Academy office since 1996, located on Baily Road. Due to inadequate office space, following the 1973 general election, he had the Ganabhaban built at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar as his official residence and secretariat, though he never resided there. After its completion the following year, he would work there until 1975 and it would subsequently be used as a court-martial by the succeeding martial law administrations.
After 6 April 1979, the building remained abandoned until 1985 when Chief Martial Law Administrator Hussain Muhammad Ershad, on the occasion of the first SAARC summit, undertook the initiative to renovate it for the first time. Following the completion of renovation work, it was rechristened to "State Guest House Karatoa" in 1986. During his Bangladesh tour, Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi stayed at the place.
Right before the end of her first tenure as prime minister from 1996 to 2001, Sheikh Hasina, Mujib's daughter, leased the Ganabhaban for just one taka during a regular cabinet meeting presided by her. Such a move offended the people and came under much criticism at the time from both national and international media. Reluctant to tolerate such criticism, PM Hasina left the building with her sister, likely planning to complete rest of the formalities in her next premiership after the election. However, she would not come to power again until 2009 and the lease would get canceled by the caretaker government of Latifur Rahman.
On 13 October 2009, a law, passed by the parliament as part of an act to provide state security to Mujib's family members, assigned the Ganabhaban to Hasina. The law was repealed, following Hasina's overthrow on 5 August 2024, by the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus on 29 August 2025, describing it as discriminatory.
Sheikh Hasina moved into the Ganabhaban on 6 March 2010, more than a year after she had been elected. Before that, she had to move from her late husband's house "Sudha Sadan" to Jamuna State Guest House in February of the same year on the advice of intelligence agencies and the Special Security Force, and stayed there while the Ganabhaban was being renovated. She hosted the wedding of three women who were victims of the 2010 Dhaka fire in Nimtoli at the Ganabhaban. U Pha Thann, Ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh, visited Hasina and discussed the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
In October 2013, Hasina invited another former prime minister Khaleda Zia to the Ganabhaban to discuss the 2014 national elections.
A constable of the Special Security and Protection Battalion, guarding the Ganabhaban, was shot accidentally by a colleague in February 2018.
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Ganabhaban
The Ganabhaban (Bengali: গণভবন, lit. 'People's House', also spelt Gonobhaban) located in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, north of the National Parliament House, served as the official residence of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina until the fall of her government. In the aftermath of the July uprising in 2024, the residence is undergoing transformation into a museum, to be named the July Uprising Memorial Museum.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, after switching from presidency to premiership following the independence of Bangladesh and founding of a parliamentary government, used to have his office at what was known as the "President's House" (later more commonly "Sugandha Bhaban" and officially "State Guest House Sugandha"), which he referred to as the "Ganabhaban", meaning "People's House", and now serves as the Foreign Service Academy office since 1996, located on Baily Road. Due to inadequate office space, following the 1973 general election, he had the Ganabhaban built at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar as his official residence and secretariat, though he never resided there. After its completion the following year, he would work there until 1975 and it would subsequently be used as a court-martial by the succeeding martial law administrations.
After 6 April 1979, the building remained abandoned until 1985 when Chief Martial Law Administrator Hussain Muhammad Ershad, on the occasion of the first SAARC summit, undertook the initiative to renovate it for the first time. Following the completion of renovation work, it was rechristened to "State Guest House Karatoa" in 1986. During his Bangladesh tour, Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi stayed at the place.
Right before the end of her first tenure as prime minister from 1996 to 2001, Sheikh Hasina, Mujib's daughter, leased the Ganabhaban for just one taka during a regular cabinet meeting presided by her. Such a move offended the people and came under much criticism at the time from both national and international media. Reluctant to tolerate such criticism, PM Hasina left the building with her sister, likely planning to complete rest of the formalities in her next premiership after the election. However, she would not come to power again until 2009 and the lease would get canceled by the caretaker government of Latifur Rahman.
On 13 October 2009, a law, passed by the parliament as part of an act to provide state security to Mujib's family members, assigned the Ganabhaban to Hasina. The law was repealed, following Hasina's overthrow on 5 August 2024, by the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus on 29 August 2025, describing it as discriminatory.
Sheikh Hasina moved into the Ganabhaban on 6 March 2010, more than a year after she had been elected. Before that, she had to move from her late husband's house "Sudha Sadan" to Jamuna State Guest House in February of the same year on the advice of intelligence agencies and the Special Security Force, and stayed there while the Ganabhaban was being renovated. She hosted the wedding of three women who were victims of the 2010 Dhaka fire in Nimtoli at the Ganabhaban. U Pha Thann, Ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh, visited Hasina and discussed the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
In October 2013, Hasina invited another former prime minister Khaleda Zia to the Ganabhaban to discuss the 2014 national elections.
A constable of the Special Security and Protection Battalion, guarding the Ganabhaban, was shot accidentally by a colleague in February 2018.
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