Sheikh Hasina’s Government Announces New Cabinet

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The Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government has named its 36-member cabinet, which is set to take oath on Thursday. The new cabinet will consist of 25 ministers and 11 state ministers, with two technocrat ministers.

Cabinet Secretary Mahbub Hossain announced that the new Bangladesh cabinet will consist of 36 members, including 25 ministers and 11 state ministers. Two technocrat ministers will be included in the cabinet.

The ministers

• AKM Mojammel Haque
• Obaidul Quader
• Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun
• Asaduzzaman Khan
• Dr Dipu Moni
• Md Tajul Islam
• Md Faruk Khan
• Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali
• Anisul Huq
• Hasan Mahmud
• Md Abdus Shahid
• Sadhan Chandra Majumdar
• Ubaidul Muktadir Chowdhury
• Md Abdur Rahman
• Narayan Chandra
• Abdus Salam
• Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury
• Forhad Hossain
• Faridul Haque Khan
• Md Jillul Hakim
• Saber Hossain Chowdhury
• Jahangir Kabir Nanak
• Nazmul Hasan Papon
• Architect Yeafesh Osman
• Dr Samanta Lal Sen

The elections were held amid tensions as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, and other parties boycotted the elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Hasina on her historic victory, stating that he had spoken to her and congratulated her on her victory for a historic fourth consecutive term in the Parliamentary elections.