Ziaur Rahman ministry

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Ziaur Rahman ministry
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7th Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
29 June 1978–20 November 1981
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President Ziaur Rahman
Date formed29 June 1978
Date dissolved27 November 1981
People and organisations
President Ziaur Rahman
Abdus Sattar (acting)
President's historyZiaur Rahman
Former Chief of Staff of Bangladesh Army
(1975–78)
Former Chief Martial Law Administrator
(1976–79)
Former President of Bangladesh (acting)
(1977–78)
Abdus Sattar
Former Interior Minister of Pakistan
(1956)
Former Special Assistant to the President of Bangladesh
(1975–77)
Vice-President of Bangladesh
(since 1977)
Vice-President Abdus Sattar
Member party  Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Status in legislatureSingle-party majority
237 / 330(72%)
Opposition party  Bangladesh Awami League
Opposition leader Asaduzzaman Khan
History
Elections 1978 (presidential)
1979 (general)
Outgoing election 1981 (presidential)
Legislature terms 2nd Jatiya Sangsad
Predecessor Sayem
Successor Sattar

The Ziaur Rahman ministry was the second democratically elected Council of Ministers of Bangladesh, during the 2nd legislative session of the Jatiya Sangsad. It was initially formed with members of a provisional council of ministers on 29 June 1978, [1] and with members elected to the reconvened parliament the following year on 15 April, [2] a few days after the martial law promulgated since the August 1975 coup was finally withdrawn following a general election in February. The ministry served under the directly elected President Ziaur Rahman and, after his assassination, his acting president Abdus Sattar. [3] It was dissolved by Sattar after he won the snap presidential election in November and declared a new council of ministers. [4]

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Members

The following lists the president(s), the vice-president(s) and the special assistant(s) to the president: [1]

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftoffice
President, CMLA (until 1979) and also in-charge of꞉
12 June 197830 May 1981 (assassinated)
Abdus Sattar (acting)
30 May 198120 November 1981
Vice-president and also in-charge of Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs 29 June 197820 November 1981
Assistant to the President 9 November 197830 July 1979

Cabinet ministers

Provisional council

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftoffice
Senior Minister (acting Prime Minister)
Minister of Railways, Roads, Bridges and Road Transport
29 June 197812 March 1979
(died in office)
Minister of Planning
Minister of Commerce
29 June 197815 April 1979
Minister of Labour and Social Welfare 29 June 197815 April 1979

Elected council

No.ImageNameStatusTerm
1 Shah Azizur Rahman Prime Minister [2] 15 April 1979
2 Jamal Uddin Ahmad Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Minister of Education15 April 1979 to 24 March 1982
3 S. A. Bari Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Minister of Industries
4 Muhammad Shamsul Huq Minister of Foreign Affairs
5 Abdul Momen Khan Minister of Food
6 M Majidul Huq Minister of Establishment
7 Abdul Halim Chowdhury Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperative
8 Abu Saleh Mohammad Mustafizur Rahman Ministry of Home Affairs
9 Saifur Rahman Minister of Finance
10 Kazi Anwarul Haque Minister of Power, Flood control, & Water resources
11 Shamsul Huda Chaudhury Minister of Information and Broadcasting
12 Nurul Huq Minister of Ports and Shipping
13 Nurul Islam Shishu Minister of Agriculture and Forests
14 KM Obaidur Rahman Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
15 Abdul Alim Minister of Railway, Roads, and Highway
16 Habib Ullah Khan Minister of Jute
17 Abdur Rahman Biswas Minister of Religious Affairs
18 Akbar Hossain Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
19 Fashiuddin Mahtab Minister of Planning
20 M. A. Matin Minister of Youth Development
21 Emran Ali Sarkar Minister of relief and Rehabilitation
22 AKM Maidul Islam Minister of Post, Telephone, and Telegraph
23 Md. Reazuddin Ahmed Minister of Labour and Labour Welfare
24 Muhammad Yusuf Ali Minister of Textiles

State ministers

Provisional council

Elected council

No.ImageNamePosition
1 Abdul Baten State Minister of Education
2 Abu Ahmad Fazlul Karim Minister of Population Control
3 R. A. Ghani State Minister of Science and Technology
4 Iqbal Hasan Mahmud State Minister of Agriculture and Forests
5 Sunil Kumar Gupta State Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
6Dr. Abul Quasem State Minister for Youth Development
7 Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury State Minister of Food
8 Taslima Abed State Minister of Women Affairs
9 Mohammad Ismail State Minister of Land Administration and Land Reforms
10 Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky State Minister of Commerce
12 L. K. Siddiqi State Minister of Power, State Minister of Water Resources & Flood Control
13 Aftabuzzaman State Minister of Fisheries and Livestock
14 Sirajul Haque Montu State Minister of Textiles
15 Amirul Islam Kamal State Minister of Culture and Sports
16 Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar State Minister of Public Works and Urban Development
17 Abdus Salam Talukder State Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs
18 Syed Mahibul Hasan State Minister of Human Resources Development and Social Welfare

Deputy ministers

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftoffice
Assistant Adviser to the President on Tribal Affairs19 September 198027 November 1981

Provisional council

Elected council

No.ImageNamePosition
1 Begum Kamrun Nahar Jafar Deputy Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperative
2Professor Abdus Salam Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
3 Jafar Imam Deputy Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation
4 Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury Deputy Minister of Food
5 Mabud Fatema Kabir Deputy Minister of Health and Population Control

Advisers

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftoffice
Adviser for Civil Aviation and Tourism 6 April 197915 April 1979
Deputy adviser for Agriculture and Forest 6 April 197915 April 1979
Adviser for Jute 15 April 197927 November 1981
Adviser for Finance 24 April 198024 November 1981

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