In Bangladesh, Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of the interim government on Thursday. Yunus distributed the responsibilities of various ministries on Friday. It is worth noting that Yunus has kept 27 ministries or departments with himself. Foreign Minister of the new government Tauheed Hussain said without naming any country, “We need to maintain balance in relations with big countries.”
Bangladesh interim government chief Prof. Mohammad Yunus on Friday distributed portfolios among the newly appointed 16-member advisory council. Yunus has kept 27 ministries with himself, such as defence, public administration, education, energy, food, water resources and information. Diplomat Mohammad Tauhid Hussain has been appointed as the head of the foreign ministry. Two student leaders Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud, who have been included in the interim cabinet, have been given charge of the ministries of telecommunication and information technology and youth and sports respectively.
Protesting students, former foreign secretary, former central bank governor…these 16 people will run the interim government of Bangladesh
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Nobel laureate Yunus, 84, was sworn in as the head of the interim government on Thursday. He replaced Sheikh Hasina, who left the country and came to India after violent protests against her government over the controversial quota system in jobs. Yunus has also been a long-time critic of Hasina.
Know who got which ministry
| 1- | Brigadier General (Retd) M Sakhawat Hussain | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| 2- | Farida Akhtar | Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock |
| 3- | Khalid Husain | Ministry of Religious Affairs |
| 4- | Noorjehan Begum | Ministry of Health |
| 5- | Sharmeen Murshid | Ministry of Social Welfare |
| 6- | Supradeep Chakma | not yet sworn in |
| 7- | Professor Bidhan Ranjan Roy | not yet sworn in |
| 8- | Tauheed Hussain | Ministry of External Affairs |
| 9- | Mohammed Nazrul Islam | Law Minister |
| 10- | Adilur Rahman Khan | Ministry of Industry |
| 11- | AF Hassan Arif | Ministry of LGRD |
| 12- | Sayeeda Rizwana Hassan | Ministry of Environment |
| 13- | Nahid Islam | Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology |
| 14- | Asif Mehmood | Ministry of Youth and Sports |
| 15- | farooq-e-azaam | not yet sworn in |
| 16- | Saleh Uddin Ahmed | Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning |
Three members of the advisory council could not take the oath on Thursday night as they were absent from the capital, and it is being speculated that Yunus may assign them some of the 27 portfolios.
Retired Army Brigadier General M Sakhawat Hussain has been tasked with overseeing the Home Ministry. Hussain was Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata from 2001 to 2005 and served as Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary from 2006 to 2009.
Speaking to the media, Foreign Affairs Advisor Hussain said that restoring law and order is the main priority of the interim government at the moment and other tasks will also come on track once the first goal is achieved. He also said that Bangladesh needs to maintain good relations with all countries.
“We need to maintain a balance in relations with big countries,” Hossain said, without naming any country. Former Bangladesh Bank governor Salahuddin Ahmed will be in charge of the finance and planning ministries, while former attorney general A F Hasan Arif will oversee the local government ministry.
Who is Muhammad Yunus?
Mohammad Yunus, who has become the new head of Bangladesh, has become the 32nd person who has won the Nobel Prize and will now play the role of the head of the nation. Before this, there are 31 other people in the whole world who have received the Nobel Prize and have also played the role of the head of the nation.
Yunus, known as the banker of the poor, and the Grameen Bank he founded have received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. He helped millions of people come out of poverty by providing small loans of less than $100 to the poor living in the villages. These poor people were not able to get any help from big banks. His model of lending inspired many such schemes around the world. This includes developed countries like America.
In the US, Yunus also started a separate non-profit organization, Grameen America. As 84-year-old Yunus became more successful, he became more inclined towards a career in politics. He also tried to form his own party in 2007. But when his ambition started taking a bigger shape, Sheikh Hasina became angry. Hasina also accused Yunus of ‘sucking the blood of the poor’.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)