PM Sheikh Hasina distributes portfolios of ministers
A 47-member cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be formed on Monday after Awami League’s absolute victory in Bangladesh’s 11th parliamentary election.
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam at a briefing on Sunday announced the names of the persons to be picked in the new cabinet.
The oath-taking ceremony of the new cabinet, led by Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina, will be held at 3.30pm Monday.
Of the cabinet members, 24 were given the portfolios of ministers while 19 state ministers and three got portfolios of deputy ministers. The cabinet includes a number of a new faces.
The official gazette over the new cabinet will be published immediately after oath-taking ceremony, said the Cabinet Secretary.
As per the list of the cabinet members, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will keep the portfolios for Cabinet Division, Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces Division, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources and Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.
Those were given portfolios of ministers are:
1. AKM Mozammel Haque -Liberation War Affairs 2. Obaidul Quader - Road Transport and Bridges 3. Abdur Razzak- Agriculture 4. Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal- Home Affairs 5. Hasan Mahmud- Information 6. Ansiul Huq- Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs 7. AHM Mustafa Kamal- Finance 8. Tajul Islam- Local Government 9. Dipu Moni- Education 10. AK Abdul Momen- Foreign Affairs 11. MA Mannan- Planning 12. Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun- Industry 13. Golam Dastagir Gazi-Textile & Jute
14. Zahid Malik- Health 15. Shadhon Chandra Majumder- Food 16. Tipu Munshi- Commerce 17. Nuruzzaman Ahmed- Social Welfare 18. SM Rezaul Karim- Public Works 19. Md Shahab Uddin- Environment & Forest 20. Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing- Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs 21. Saifuzzaman Chowdhury- Land 22. Nurul Islam Sujan- Railway 23. Yeafesh Osman- Science and Technology (Technocrat) 24. Mustafa Jabbar- Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology (Technocrat)
State ministers :
1. Kamal Ahmed Mojumder -Industry 2. Imran Ahmed -Expatriate Welfare 3. Zahid Ahsan Russel -Youth and Sports 4. Nasrul Hamid - Power and Energy 5. Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru -Fisheries and Livestock 6. Munnuzan Sufian -Labour 7. Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury -Shipping 8. Zakir Hossain -Primary and Mass Education 9. Shariar Alam- Foreign Affairs 10. Zunayed Ahmed Palak -Information and Communication Technology 11. Farhad Hossain -Public Administration 12. Swapan Bhattacharya - Local Government 13. Zahid Faruque -Water Resources 14. Md Murad Hasan -Health 15. Sharif Ahmed -Social Welfare 16. K M Khalid -Cultural Affairs 17. Enamur Rahman -Disaster Management and Relief 18. Mahbub Ali -Civil Aviation 19. Sheikh Md Abdullah- Religious Affaurs (Technocrat)
Deputy Ministers are:
1. Habibun Nahar -Environment 2. AKM Enamul Haque Shamim -Water Resources 3. Mahibul Hasan Chowdhury Nawfel -Education
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