Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has indicated that she will retire after the current term to promote young leaders.

In an interview with the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, PM who assumed office just a month ago, for the fourth time as the prime minister, said she wanted to retire after the five-year term.

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Hasina said, "It's the third consecutive term and before that I was prime minister (1996-2001), so it's my fourth term. I don't want to continue for more (time). I think that everybody should take a break so we can accommodate the younger generation," 

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According to reports, on Tuesday, at a cultural event in Gazipur, the prime minister said she would like to go back to her ancestral village of Tungipara in Gopalganj to spend her retirement.

Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won the 11th parliamentary elections in December last year with a landslide victory even as Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party rejected the polls marred with violence that claimed 18 lives, making it one of the deadliest polls in the nation.