2024-08-17 01:18:46
Four more advisers have been sworn in to join the interim government. With this, the number of members in the government led by the chief advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus stood at 21.
On Friday (August 16) in the afternoon, President Md read the oath to the four new advisers at Bangabhaban. Sahabuddin. The oath ceremony was conducted by the Secretary of the Cabinet Department. Mahbub Hossain.
The new advisors are – Economist Wahiduddin Mahmud, former Cabinet Secretary Ali Imam Majumder, former Power Secretary Muhammad Fawzul Kabir Khan and Lt. General (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury. Offices have not been distributed among them yet.
In the swearing-in ceremony, the chief adviser of the interim government. Muhammad Yunus along with other advisors, heads of various forces, judges, representatives of civil society, senior lawyers, dignitaries of the society, senior military and civil officers were present.
After the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government in the face of the students’ movement on August 8. A 17-member interim government was formed with Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser.
The chief adviser of the interim government. Muhammad Yunus is in charge of 24 ministries and departments including Cabinet Department, Defense Ministry, Education, Road Transport and Bridges, Food, Agriculture, Public Administration Ministry, Commerce Ministry. Other advisers include Salehuddin Ahmed, Ministry of Finance and Planning; Professor Asif Nazrul Law; Art to Adilur Rahman Khan; Hasan Arif Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives; Md. Touhid Hossain foreign; Environment, Forests and Climate Change to Syeda Rizwana Hasan; Social Welfare to Sharmin S. Murshid; Farooq-e-Azam on Liberation War Affairs, Brigadier General (Retd.) M Sakhawat Hussain on Home Affairs; Supradeep Chakma on Chittagong Hill Tracts; Vidhan Ranjan Roy to primary and mass education; Religion to A F M Khalid Hossain; Fisheries and Livestock to Farida Akhtar; Nurjahan Begum Health and Family Welfare; Md. Nahid Islam has been given the charge of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology and Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan has been given the charge of Youth and Sports.