Appointed new faces as ministers to prepare future generation: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, I have appointed the new faces as ministers and that does not mean that the old were failed. The country has moved much forward as the old were successful. I have appointed the new persons as ministers to prepare the future generation. All the cabinet members will be under strict surveillance.

The Prime Minister said these in a view exchange meeting with the new cabinet members and Awami League executive working committee members at the Gonobhaban in the capital on Tuesday.

The premier said, the country has progressed much as the old ministers were successful. Not for their failure, to prepare the future generation the new persons were placed in the cabinet instead of the old persons.

At that time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the new ministers to advance the success of the old persons through their ministerial work with merit and efficiency.

She also announced to keep the cabinet members under strict surveillance. In the meeting the newly appointed ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers and Awami League executive working committee members were present.

In the newly formed cabinet comprising 47 members led by the Prime Minister 27 are new faces. There are also four members who were not in the previous cabinet but remained there earlier. With these two categories in the cabinet the number of new faces is 31.

Nine members have become ministers for the first time. Of the 19 state ministers 15 have come to the cabinet for the first time. Three deputy ministers also have taken their position in the cabinet for the first time.

AH