UNB, Dhaka :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expanded her cabinet by inducting a minister and a state minister turning it into a 49-member one.AH Mahmood Ali, an MP from Dinajpur-4 constituency, got back his old job – Foreign Minister – while Narsingdi-1 MP Col (retd) Nazrul Islam was given the portfolio of State Minister of Water Resources Ministry.A career diplomat, Ali discharged his duties as Foreign Minister in the Sheikh Hasina’s interim government that oversaw the parliamentary polls. He was also Disaster Management and Relief Minister in Sheikh Hasina’s previous government.Before the portfolio distribution, President Abdul Hamid administered the oath to the newly inducted minister and state minister at the Credential Hall of Bangabhaban at 12.05 pm.Cabinet secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan conducted the oath-taking ceremony.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, Textiles and Jute Minister Emaj Udddin Pramanik, Chief Whip ASM Firoz were, among others, present on the occasion.
