Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formed a 37-member cabinet with 19 new faces in her new government on Thursday evening.
In the new cabinet, some heavyweight ministers and state ministers have been dropped while some have retained their positions.
A total of 36 ministers and state ministers took oath as members of the cabinet on Thursday at the Bangabhaban. Of them, 25 are full ministers while the 11 are state ministers.
Among the full ministers, only 10 served in the outgoing cabinet. State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain and Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hasan took oath as full ministers.
Those who retained their position as full ministers are AKM Mozammel Haque (Ministry of Liberation War Affairs), Obaidul Quader (Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges), Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun (Ministry of Industries), Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal (Ministry of Home Affairs), Tajul Islam (Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives), Advocate Anisul Haq (Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs), Sadhan Chandra Majumder (Ministry of Food) and Faridul Haque Khan (Ministry of Religious Affairs), among others.
Four state ministers retain their positions: Nasrul Hamid (Power & Energy), Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury (Shipping), Zunaid Ahmed Palak (ICT), and Zahid Faruk (Water Resources).
Yeafesh Osman and Dr. Samanta Lal Sen have been made technocrat ministers in the new cabinet.
Technocrat minister Mustafa Jabbar who served the outgoing government as post and telecommunication minister has been dropped from the new cabinet.
Fifteen figures, including Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque, Planning Minister MA Mannan, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, and Lands Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, who had sparked controversies on several occasions over the past five years, did not made it to the new cabinet.
The other people who have been dropped include Health Minister Zahid Maleque, Jute and Textiles Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim, Environment Minister Shahab Uddin, Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, Expatriate Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed, Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, and Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushai Singh
