Dhaka Bureau: The size of the new cabinet including the Prime Minister stands at 36 people. 25 of them are full ministers. And 11 are getting the responsibility of state minister. Cabinet Secretary Mahbub Hossain told reporters the list of new ministers and state ministers on Wednesday (January 10) night. The new cabinet headed by the Prime Minister will take oath tomorrow Thursday (January 11) evening.
The cabinet secretary said, this time the cabinet will have 25 full ministers and 11 state ministers.
The full ministerial list includes:
A. A. Mozammel Haque, Obaidul Quader, Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, Asaduzzaman Khan, Dr. Dipu Moni, Md. Tajul Islam, Muhammad Farooq Khan, Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali, Anisul Haque, Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Abdus Shaheed, Sadhan Chandra Majumder, RM Ubaidul Mokhtadir Chowdhury, Abdur Rahman, Narayan Chandra Chand, Abdus Salam, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, Farhad Hossain, Faridul Haque Khan, Jillul Hakim, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Nazmul Hasan Papon, Yafes Osman, Samant Lal Sen.
The list of Ministers of State includes:
Begum Simin Hossain Rimi, Nasrul Hamid, Junaid Ahmed Palak, Md. Ali Arafat, Mohibur Rahman, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Zahid Farooq, Kujendra Lal Tripura, Rumana Ali, Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury, Ahsanul Islam.
It should be noted that Awami League won 222 out of 299 seats in the 12th National Parliament elections. 62 people were elected as independents, leaving behind the opposition party of the 11th parliament, Jatiya Party; 59 of whom are leaders of Awami League.
And Jatiya Party’s seats have reduced by more than half to 11. Awami League’s partner party Jasad and Bangladesh Workers Party won two and Kalyan Party won one. Polling for one seat is suspended.
