The incumbent interim government, led by Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, is expanding with four new faces set to take oath on Friday.
The swearing-in ceremony of the new advisers will be held at Bangabhaban at 4pm, read a press release issue by the Bangabhaban Press Wing on Thursday.
The four new advisers are economist Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, former cabinet secretary Ali Imam Majumder, Lt Col (Retd) Jahangir Alam, and former secretary Muhammad Fawzul Kabir Khan.
Earlier, on August 11, Ali Imam was appointed special assistant to Chief Adviser Yunus. Today, he will take oath as an adviser of the interim government.
Portfolios of the new advisers will be known later in the day.
Fourteen members of the 17-member Advisory Council, including Yunus, took oath on August 8, after a mass uprising forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India on August 5.
On that day, the cabinet was dissolved. On August 6, the president also dissolved the 12th Jatiya Sangsad.
Three more advisers were sworn in later. With the four new advisers, the number of advisers will reach 21.
Aside from Yunus, the other advisers to the interim government are Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, former governor of Bangladesh Bank; Brigadier General (retired) M Sakhawat Hossain; Dhaka University law department teacher Prof Asif Nazrul; Hasan Arif, former attorney general and adviser of Fakhruddin Ahmed-led caretaker government; Md Touhid Hossain, former foreign secretary; Syeda Rizwana Hasan, chief executive of BELA; Md Nahid Islam, DU student and key organiser of the Students Against Discrimination Movement; Asif Mahmud, DU student and key organiser of the Students Against Discrimination Movement; Adilur Rahman Khan, founder of rights group Odhikar; Supradeep Chakma, chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board; Farida Akhtar; women's rights activist; Director cum Professor Bidhan Ranjan Roy of the psychiatry department at the National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital; AFM Khalid Hossain, nayeb-e-ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam and adviser of Islami Andolan Bangladesh; Nurjahan Begum, Grameen Telecom trustee; Sharmeen Murshid, freedom fighter; and Bir Pratik Faruk-e-Azam.
