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).
