Michigan city in US names street after former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia

The city of Hamtramck in the US state of Michigan has renamed one of its roads from Carpenter Street to Khaleda Zia Street in honour of the former three-time Prime Minister of Bangladesh, reported Bangladeshi daily Desh Rupantor. A vital fact is that the city of Hamtramck is the first city in the US to have an entirely Muslim-majority population. It is also the first US city with an all-Muslim council.

Hamtramck became a Muslim-majority city in 2013 and the city also had a Muslim-majority governing council in 2015. In 2022, Hamtramck became the first US city with an all-Muslim city



council.

Desh Rupantor reported that the proposal to name the section of the road between Joseph Campau and Conault Streets in Hamtramck City after Khaleda Zia was recently approved by the City Council. The council currently has four councillors of Bangladeshi origin, whose active efforts made the naming of the road possible.

Khaleda died at a hospital in Dhaka on December 30 after a prolonged illness. She was 80. Earlier, a road in Chicago was renamed after late Bangladeshi President and Khaleda's husband Ziaur Rahman.