47-member cabinet finalised, to take oath Monday

Forty-three members of parliament and three individuals will make room in the new cabinet to be formed on Monday after Awami League's landslide victory in Bangladesh's 11th Jatiya Sangsad elections.

Cabinet secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam on Sunday said there will be 24 ministers, 19 state ministers and three deputy ministers in the cabinet. Among them thirty-one are faces, he said.

President Abdul Hamid will administer the oath of the new ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers at a function at Bangabhaban 3:30pm on Monday.

The official gazette over the new cabinet will be published immediately after oath-taking ceremony, said the cabinet secretary. With the publication of the gazette, the incumbent cabinet will be abolished, he said.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will keep the portfolios of cabinet division, public administration ministry, defence ministry, armed forces division, power, energy and mineral resources ministry, and women and children affairs ministry in her hands.

Those who will be ministers are — AKM Mozammel Haque for liberation war affairs ministry, Obaidul Quader for road transport and bridges ministry, M Abdur Razzak for agriculture ministry, M Asaduzzman Khan for home ministry, Mohammad Hasan Mahmud for information ministry, Anisul Huq for law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry, AHM Mustafa Kamal for finance ministry, M Tajul Islam for local government , rural development and cooperatives ministry, Dipu Moni for education ministry, AK Abdul Momen for foreign ministry, MA Mannan for planning ministry, Nurul Mazid Mahmud Humayun for industries ministry, Golam Dastagir Gazi for textile and jute ministry, Zahid Malek for health and family welfare ministry, Sadhan Chandra Majumder for food ministry, Tipu Munshi for commerce ministry, Nuruzzman Ahmed for social welfare ministry, SM Rezaul Karim for housing and public works ministry, Shahab Uddin for environment, forest and climate change ministry, Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing for Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs ministry, Saifuzzman Chowdhury for land ministry, M Nurul Islam Sujan for railways ministry, Yafesh Osman for science and technology ministry, and Mustafa Zabbar for post, telecommunication and ICT ministry.                           

Those who will be state ministers are — Kamal Ahmed Majumder for industries ministry, Imran Ahmed for expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry, Zahid Ahsan Russell for youth and sports ministry, Nasrul Hamid for  power, energy and mineral resources ministry,  M Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru for fisheries and livestock ministry, Munnujan Sufian for labour and employment ministry, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury for shipping ministry, M Zakir Hossain for primary and mass education ministry, M Shahriar Alam for foreign ministry, Zunaid Ahmed Palak  for ICT division, Farhad Hossain for public administration ministry, Swapan Bhattachaiya for LGRD ministry, Zahid Faruk for water resources ministry, M Murad Hasan for health and family welfare ministry, Sharif Ahmed for social welfare ministry, KM Khalid for cultural affairs ministry, M Enamur Rahman for disaster management and relief ministry, M Mahbub Ali for civil aviation and tourism ministry, and Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah for  religious affairs ministry.

Those who will be deputy ministers are — Habibun Nahar for environment, forest and climate change ministry, AKM Enamul Haque Shamim for water resources ministry and Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury for education ministry.

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