Dhaka: Sheikh Hasina has sworn in as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh on 7 January for the fourth time at Bangabhaban — the official residence and office of the Bangladesh President. The swearing ceremony of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and cabinet members is now being held at Bangabhaban at 3.30 PM on Monday. Members of the new cabinet arrived at Bangabhaban to take oath Monday afternoon.

President Abdul Hamid is administering the oath to the new cabinet members.

A 47-member cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be constituted today (Monday), said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam on Sunday.

‘Thirty-one new faces will be inducted in the new cabinet to be formed with three technocrat ministers,’ he said.

There will be 24 ministers, 19 state ministers and three deputy ministers in the cabinet.

The official gazette over the new cabinet will be published immediately after the oath-taking ceremony, Shafiul Alam said.

With the publication of the gazette, the outgoing cabinet will be abolished, the cabinet secretary said.

Earlier, President Abdul Hamid on Thursday invited Awami League President Sheikh Hasina to form the new government after her party’s massive victory in the 11th national election.

PM’s Portfolios

According to 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.

24 new ministers

The 24 wound be ministers are AKM MozammelHuq (Liberation War Affairs), Obaidul Quader (Road Transport and Bridges), Md Abdur Razzaque (Agriculture), Asaduzzaman Khan (Home Affair), Mohammad Hasan Mahmud (Information), Anisul Huq (Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs), AHM Mustafa Kamal (Finance), Md Tajul Islam (Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives), Dr Dipu Moni (Education), AK Abdul Momen (Foreign Affairs), MA Mannan (Planning), Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun (Industries), Golam Dastagir Gazi (Textiles and Jute), Zahid Maleque (Health and Family Welfare), Sadhan Chandra Majumder (Food), Tipu Munshi (Commerce), Nuruzzaman Ahmed (Social Welfare), SM RezaulKarim (Housing and Public Works), Md Shahab Uddin (Environment, Forest and Climate Change), Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing (Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs), SaifuzzamanChowdhury (Land), Md Nurul Islam Sujan (Railways), Yeafesh Osman (Science and Technology-Technocrat), and Mustafa Jabbar (Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology-Technocrat).

19 new ministers

The 19 would-be state ministers are Kamal Ahmed Majumder (Education), Imran Ahmad (Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment), Md Zahid Ahsan Russel (Youth and Sports), Nasrul Hamid (Power, Energy and Mineral Resources), Md Ashraf Ali Khan Kashru (Fisheries and Livestock), Begum Monnuzan Sufian (Labour and Employment), Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury (Shipping), Md Zakir Hossain (Primary and Mass Education), Md Shahriar Alam (Foreign Affairs), Zunaid Ahmed Palak (Information and Communication Technology Division), Farhad Hossain (Public Administration), Shawpan Bhattacharjee (LGRD and Cooperatives), Jahid Faruk (Water Resources), Md Murad Hasan (Health and Family Welfare), Sharif Ahmed (Social Welfare), KM Khalid (Cultural Affairs), Md Enamur Rahaman (Disaster Management and Relief),Md Mahbub Ali (Civil Aviation and Tourism) and Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (Religious Affairs-Technocrat).

3 new deputy ministers

The three would-be deputy ministers are Begum Habibun Nahar (Environment, Forest and Climate Change), AKM Enamul Haque Shamim (Water Resources) and Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury (Education).