Hasina keeps defence, home and external affairs’ folios

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has kept crucial portfolios of defence, home and foreign affairs with herself as she distributed portfolios among her new Cabinet members. She is also in charge of cabinet division, public administration and armed forces division According to a cabinet division statement, issued hours after the swearing in of the new government on Sunday, Hasina will also keep the ministries that have no ministers and ministers of state.

Hasina dropped several of her previous ministers, including Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta, a minority leader. Only 15 of the 51 ministers and state ministers retained their positions in the new govt as Hasina brought back several sidelined leaders.