Ashraf gets Public Administration Ministry

A week after he was stripped of the portfolio of LGRD and Cooperatives Ministry, Awami League’s Secretary General Syed Ashraful Islam has been made Public Administration Minister. The Cabinet Division on Thursday issued a gazette notification signed by Cabinet Secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan to this end. Earlier on July 9, Ashraf was removed from the LGRD and Cooperatives Ministry and made a minister without portfolio following the prime minister’s displeasure over his absence in an Ecnec meeting. Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain then replaced Syed Ashraf, according to UNB.