Bangladesh, Feb. 20 -- The BNP has finalised 25 ministers and 24 state ministers for the cabinet under the leadership of party Chairman Tarique Rahman. Veteran BNP leader Engineer M Iqbal Hossain was sworn in as a minister of state for Disaster Management and Relief in Bangladesh's new 49 member cabinet on Tuesday. He won the Mymensingh-3 (Gouripur) seat and brings decades of political hope of Gouripur upazila. The people of Gouripur Upazila warmly greeted him as appointed as a state minister and sweets were distributed in many important places of this upazila.

Engineer M Iqbal Hossain, a member of BNP's central executive committee, has won according to initial results. The 'Dhaaner Shish' candidate secured 75,320 votes, while his closes...