Where will Tarique Rahman live as prime minister when government takes office?

Officials say it may take about a month for the State Guest House Jamuna to be ready, and until then he would stay where he is now

The housing ministry has drawn up plans for a “world-class” residence for the new prime minister, but for now the arrangement remains provisional.

Once sworn in as prime minister on Tuesday, BNP chief Tarique Rahman is expected to move to the State Guest House Jamuna after renovation is completed.

A senior official of the Public Works Department (PWD) said Jamuna would need around a month to be made ready.

Until then, he said, Tarique is likely to remain at his current residence.

Breaking 17 years of self-imposed exile, Tarique returned to Bangladesh on Dec 25, 2025, and moved into house number 196 on Gulshan Avenue.

His party went on to secure a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections.

The new government is set to take oath on Tuesday afternoon at the South Plaza of parliament.

Asked about accommodation for the new prime minister, PWD Chief Engineer Khalequzzaman Chowdhury said on Sunday night that Jamuna could be renovated within a month, but stressed that no formal instructions had yet been received.

“For now, we are making ministers’ residences ready, preparing offices, and completing arrangements at the Secretariat,” he said.

As of now, Jamuna is occupied by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, who moved there after taking office on Aug 8, 2024.

Previously, caretaker government chief advisors Justice Habibur Rahman in 1996, Latifur Rahman in 2001, and Fakhruddin Ahmed following the 2008 political change also stayed at Jamuna.

After being ousted during the 2024 uprising, Sheikh Hasina’s official residence, Ganabhaban, was attacked and looted on Aug 5.

The interim government later converted the building into the “July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum”.

When Khaleda Zia served as prime minister, she lived twice at House No. 6 on Mainul Road in the Dhaka Cantonment.

She was evicted from the residence during Hasina’s rule and later moved to a rented house in Gulshan.

The Ministry of Housing and Public Works had earlier formed a committee to plan new residences for the prime minister and ministers.

The committee proposed two possible locations in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar: the speaker and deputy speaker’s residences near the parliament complex, and an area under the defence ministry.

Chief Engineer Khalequzzaman said a fresh project was now being prepared in the defence ministry behind the former Ganabhaban.

“We want to build a new residence for the honourable prime minister. After he reviews it, we will finalise the plan. We aim to make it better than any international-standard residence,” he said.