Hasan Mahmud remains in his own portfolio, environment and forest ministry, as a full minister while Suranjit Sengupta gets the parliamentary affairs ministry, a highly placed source in the government tells .
Obaidul Quader is likely to get either the cultural affairs or the information ministry, the source said.
President M Zillur Rahman administered oath to the three new cabinet additions at Bangabhaban around 8.10pm on Monday. Cabinet secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan conducted the 10-minute ceremony.
Having represented his electorate in most parliaments, Suranjit became a minister for the first time, joined by another senior leader Quader. State minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud got elevated to the cabinet rank in the same ministry.
They took oath clad in 'Mujib coats', as prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, parliament's deputy leader Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and principal secretary to prime minister Shaikh Mohammad Wahid-uz-Zaman watched on.
Hasan was the state minister for environment and forests after he was shuffled from the foreign ministry as its junior minister. He was elected to parliament for the first time this past election from a Chittagong constituency.
Senior politician Suranjit was adviser to Hasina in her 1996-2001 term with the rank and status of a minister. Quader was the state minister for youth, sports and cultural affairs.
Amid the buzz that the prime minister was bringing major changes to her 34-month old cabinet, the government source earlier in the evening told that Suranjit and Quader will become ministers.
The source also told no-one was going out of the cabinet but some offices would be reshuffled.
The current Awami League cabinet was formed on Jan 6, 2009 with 32 members and later expanded to 38.
Awami League's current ministers are Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Begum Matia Chowdhury Abdul Latif Siddique, Shafique Ahmed, A K Khandker, Rajiuddin Ahamed Raju, Shahara Khatun, Syed Ashraful Islam, Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Rezaul Karim Hira, Abul Kalam Azad, Enamul Hoque Mustafa Shahee, Dilip Barua, Ramesh Chandra Sen Ghulam Muhammed Quader, Muhammad Faruk Khan, Syed Abul Hossain, Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Afsarul Ameen, A F M Ruhal Haque, Dipu Moni, Nurul Islam Nahid, Abdul Latif Biswas and Shajahan Khan.
The state ministers are Mostafizur Rahman, A B Tajul Islam, Yeafesh Osman, Hasan Mahmud, Begum Monnujan Sufian, Dipankar Talukdar, Ahad Ali Sarkar, Shahjahan Miah, Abdul Mannan Khan, Kamrul Islam and Shamsul Hoque Tuku.
Prime minister Hasina had picked Tanjim Ahmed, better known as 'Sohel Taj', in first phase but he later resigned.
Obaidul Quader is likely to get either the cultural affairs or the information ministry, the source said.
President M Zillur Rahman administered oath to the three new cabinet additions at Bangabhaban around 8.10pm on Monday. Cabinet secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan conducted the 10-minute ceremony.
Having represented his electorate in most parliaments, Suranjit became a minister for the first time, joined by another senior leader Quader. State minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud got elevated to the cabinet rank in the same ministry.
They took oath clad in 'Mujib coats', as prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, parliament's deputy leader Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and principal secretary to prime minister Shaikh Mohammad Wahid-uz-Zaman watched on.
Hasan was the state minister for environment and forests after he was shuffled from the foreign ministry as its junior minister. He was elected to parliament for the first time this past election from a Chittagong constituency.
Senior politician Suranjit was adviser to Hasina in her 1996-2001 term with the rank and status of a minister. Quader was the state minister for youth, sports and cultural affairs.
Amid the buzz that the prime minister was bringing major changes to her 34-month old cabinet, the government source earlier in the evening told that Suranjit and Quader will become ministers.
The source also told no-one was going out of the cabinet but some offices would be reshuffled.
The current Awami League cabinet was formed on Jan 6, 2009 with 32 members and later expanded to 38.
Awami League's current ministers are Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Begum Matia Chowdhury Abdul Latif Siddique, Shafique Ahmed, A K Khandker, Rajiuddin Ahamed Raju, Shahara Khatun, Syed Ashraful Islam, Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Rezaul Karim Hira, Abul Kalam Azad, Enamul Hoque Mustafa Shahee, Dilip Barua, Ramesh Chandra Sen Ghulam Muhammed Quader, Muhammad Faruk Khan, Syed Abul Hossain, Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Afsarul Ameen, A F M Ruhal Haque, Dipu Moni, Nurul Islam Nahid, Abdul Latif Biswas and Shajahan Khan.
The state ministers are Mostafizur Rahman, A B Tajul Islam, Yeafesh Osman, Hasan Mahmud, Begum Monnujan Sufian, Dipankar Talukdar, Ahad Ali Sarkar, Shahjahan Miah, Abdul Mannan Khan, Kamrul Islam and Shamsul Hoque Tuku.
Prime minister Hasina had picked Tanjim Ahmed, better known as 'Sohel Taj', in first phase but he later resigned.
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