Interim-govt advisers take oath

The interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus was sworn on Thursday night.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath of office to chief adviser and other advisers of the new government at Bangabhaban. 

Other advisers are Dr. Saleh Uddin Ahmed, economist and former governor of Bangladesh Bank; Brigadier General (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain, former Election Commissioner; Dr. Asif Nazrul, Dhaka University's Law Department's professor; Adilur Rahman Khan, human rights activist; Hasan Ariff, former Caretaker Goverment's adviser; Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Chief Executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela); Farida Akhtar, women's rights activist;  Touhid Hossain, former Foreign Secretary; Supradip Chakma, chairman of Chattogram Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB) and former ambassador; Bidhan Ranjan Roy; AFM Khalid Hasan, Hefazat-e-Islam nayeb-e-ameer and Islami Andolan Bangladesh adviser; Nurjahan Begum, Grameen Telecom trustee;  Sharmeen Murshid, freedom fighter; Bir Pratik Faruk-e-Azam; Md Nahid Islam, Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinator; Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinator.

Supradip Chakma, Bidhan Ranjan Roy, and Faruk-e-Azam are outside the capital, so they could not be sworn in today.

Cabinet Secretary Md. Mahbub Hossain conducted the oath-taking ceremony. 

President's wife Dr. Rebeka Sultana, leaders of political parties, judges, representatives of various organizations, chiefs of the three services, inspector general of police (IGP), senior military and civil officers, diplomats, freedom fighters, senior journalists and other dignitaries were present.