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Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

parliamentary_committee · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

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Head
Tarique Rahman
Role
Prime Minister (chair of advisory council)
Annual budget
—
Staff
10
Established
2026
Legal basis
Rules of Business 1996 (as amended); Article 56(2) of the Constitution of Bangladesh (appointment of non-MP ministers at PM's discretion, not exceeding one-tenth of cabinet size); gazette notification of 24 February 2026 by the Cabinet Division allocating portfolios to 10 advisers under PM Tarique Rahman

Operating as a 10-member political and policy advisory body under PM Tarique Rahman since 17 February 2026; advisers with full ministerial rank (Abbas, Nazrul, Rizvi, Zabihullah, Titumir) drive BNP political management, public administration reform, and macro-economic policy, while state-minister-rank advisers (Humayun Kabir, Shamsul Islam, Zahedur Rahman, Mahadi Amin, Rehan Asif Asad) manage specific ministry agendas; collectively active across the 91-bill legislative conversion pipeline, the BIDA 180-day investment reform plan, and fiscal policy coordination for the FY2026-27 budget process.

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Provenance & notes

The 'advisory-council' slug covers the PM's 10-member political and policy advisory body constituted on 17 February 2026. This body is distinct from (1) the Yunus-era interim Advisory Council (dissolved 17 February 2026 by gazette) and (2) the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC), a business-consultative body chaired by the PM from April 2026 -- PSAC has no legal status as a formal government entity (BIDA retracted a claim to the contrary). Khaleda Zia, BNP founder and former PM (died 30 December 2025), held no formal advisory role under the Tarique Rahman government; she passed away before the February 2026 election and was honoured posthumously with the Independence Award 2026 (BSS, March 2026). entity_type is set to 'parliamentary_committee' per the schema instruction; the body does not formally sit as a parliamentary committee but is the closest schema category to a high-level advisory body. established_year = 2026 reflects the current configuration; PM advisers as a practice date to earlier governments. staff_count = 10 is the number of appointed advisers; secretariat staff not publicly disaggregated. annual_budget_bdt is null: no separate budget line for the advisory council is published in the FY2025-26 national budget documents reviewed.

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