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DHAKA
Bangladesh’s re-elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has named the members of her new cabinet after securing a third consecutive term in last month’s election, an official said on Sunday.
The new ministers will be sworn in during a ceremony at the Bangabhaban presidential palace in the capital Dhaka on Monday, spokesman Mohammad Shafiul Alam said.
Thirty-one of the 47 cabinet members are new faces in government, he added. Besides her role as premier, Hasina, 71, will be in charge of a few important ministries, including defence, public administration, energy, power and mineral resources, Alam said.
Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will be replaced by Abul Kalam Abdul Momen, who was Bangladesh’s permanent representative to the United Nations for six years until 2015.
Former planning minister AFM Mustafa Kamal was named as finance minister to replace Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, who has been running the ministry for nearly 10 years.
Hasina’s ruling Awami League party won 259 seats in the 300-seat parliament in the December 30 election, which was marred by violence and allegations of rigging.
The government dismissed the allegations.
The opposition alliance of jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia rejected the election results, asking the authorities to arrange fresh polls under a neutral administration.
Hasina returned from exile to Bangladesh in 1981, six years after her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder of independent Bangladesh, was assassinated in 1975. She has already served three five-year tenures as prime minister of the South Asian country - 1996-2001, 2009-2014 and 2014-2018. She will be sworn in for another five-year term on Monday.
DHAKA
Bangladesh’s re-elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has named the members of her new cabinet after securing a third consecutive term in last month’s election, an official said on Sunday.
The new ministers will be sworn in during a ceremony at the Bangabhaban presidential palace in the capital Dhaka on Monday, spokesman Mohammad Shafiul Alam said.
Thirty-one of the 47 cabinet members are new faces in government, he added. Besides her role as premier, Hasina, 71, will be in charge of a few important ministries, including defence, public administration, energy, power and mineral resources, Alam said.
Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will be replaced by Abul Kalam Abdul Momen, who was Bangladesh’s permanent representative to the United Nations for six years until 2015.
Former planning minister AFM Mustafa Kamal was named as finance minister to replace Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, who has been running the ministry for nearly 10 years.
Hasina’s ruling Awami League party won 259 seats in the 300-seat parliament in the December 30 election, which was marred by violence and allegations of rigging.
The government dismissed the allegations.
The opposition alliance of jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia rejected the election results, asking the authorities to arrange fresh polls under a neutral administration.
Hasina returned from exile to Bangladesh in 1981, six years after her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder of independent Bangladesh, was assassinated in 1975. She has already served three five-year tenures as prime minister of the South Asian country - 1996-2001, 2009-2014 and 2014-2018. She will be sworn in for another five-year term on Monday.
