Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus unveiled the portfolios of the newly-appointed council of advisors with a keen focus on reshaping the administrat🅠ion he himself has taken direct charge of 27 key ministries. , Yunus appointed seasoned diplomat Mohammad Touhid Hossain as the hea🌊d of the foreign ministry.
Muhammad Yunus - 27 Portfolios
Nobel la🍌ureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, was sworn in on Thursday as the head of an interim government after Sheikh Hasina suddenly resigned and fled to India. Hasina's departure came amid unrest over a disputed job quota system💯.
Yunus too💞k on the role of chief advisor, similar to a prime minister. He will manage 27 ministries, including defence, public administration, education, energy, food, water reღsources, and information.
Other advisors were chose💧n after consulting with student l🥀eaders, the military, and civil society groups.
Mohammad Touhid Hossain
Former foreign secretary Hossain has been entrꦏusted with the charge of the foreign ministry while retired Army brigadier general M Sakhawat Hossain was tasked to ov✱ersee the home ministry.
Hossain was the Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Kolkata from 2001 to 2005 and served as Foreign Secretar🀅y ꦚof Bangladesh from 2006 to 2009.
Salahuddin Ahmed
Former Bangladesh Bank governor Salahuddinꦚ Ahmed will be in charge of the finance and planning ministries while former attorney general A F Hassan Arif🦋 will oversee the local government ministry.
Students' Movement Coordinators
The group waged first the street movement to reform the quota system for government jobs last mo🥃nth which later turned into a public upsurge and ousted Hasina’s 15-year regime and installed the interim government, visibly backed by the military.
Two coordinators of Students Against 🥂Discrimination inducted in the interim cabinet M Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud were given the charge of telecom💞munications and information technology and youth and sports ministries respectively.
Three members of the advisers’ council, mostly civil society figures, could not 🐼take the oath on Thursday night at the Bangabhaban presidential palace as they were ouꦜtside of the capital and officials presumed that Yunus might distribute some of the 27 portfolios to them.
