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Mustafa Jabbar stripped of ICT in cabinet shuffle
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shuffled her cabinet five months after forming the government for the third consecutive term.
Published : 19 May 2019, 11:59 AM
Updated : 19 May 2019, 03:08 PM
No-one has been included or dropped, but changes have been brought to share of duties of ministers and state ministers in two ministries while State Minister Murad Hassan has been transferred.
Additional secretaries to the Cabinet Division Mustafizur Rahman and Mosammat Nasima Begum confirmed the news of the shuffle to bdnews24.com on Sunday.
Minister Mustafa Jabbar will now focus solely on the post and telecoms while State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak will deal with information and communication technology singlehandedly with the cabinet shuffling their tasks.
State Minister Murad, a doctor by training, has been shifted to the information ministry from the health and family welfare. Hasan Mahmud is the information minister now.
Murad Hassan. File Photo
Hasina has also shuffled responsibilities at the local government, rural development and cooperatives ministry.
From now on, Minister Tazul Islam will handle only the local government division and State Minister Swapan Bhattacharjee will deal with rural development and cooperatives.
Hasina formed her cabinet of 47 with 27 new faces after taking oath as prime minister on Jan 7 following the huge election victory of the Awami League.
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