Prime Minister's Office
Profile
- Head
- Tarique Rahman
- Role
- Prime Minister
- Annual budget
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- Staff
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- Established
- 1972
- Legal basis
- Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 55 (executive power vested in the Prime Minister); Article 55(6) authorises the President to make Rules for the allocation and transaction of government business. The Rules of Business 1996 (Cabinet Division, first gazetted 1975, comprehensively revised 1996, last revised July 2012) governs PMO functions and Schedule I allocates subjects.
PMO is implementing the BNP manifesto’s ‘Meritocratic Bangladesh’ agenda: inflation control via Family Card social transfers, law-and-order consolidation through policing reforms, and July National Charter-aligned governance reforms including anti-corruption commission strengthening; foreign policy reorientation away from India-first toward a multi-vector pragmatic stance.
Recent activity
- 2026-02-17 appointment Tarique Rahman sworn in as Prime Minister at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban South Plaza; President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered oath. BNP won 209 seats (alliance total 212 of 299) in the 13th Parliament election held 11 February 2026. ↗↗↗
- 2026-02-18 policy First cabinet meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat; PM identified three priority objectives: controlling commodity prices, improving law and order, and ensuring reliable electricity supply. ↗
- 2026-02-20 reform PM starts office at Tejgaon PMO headquarters for the first time; Principal Secretary ABM Abdus Sattar and PMO Director General Mohammad Abdul Wadud Chowdhury briefed PM on structure and functions. ↗↗
- 2026-02-23 appointment Three secretaries including PMO Secretary Md Saifullah Panna attached to Ministry of Public Administration in administrative reshuffle within the first week of the new government. ↗↗
- 2026-02-25 appointment PMO-directed replacement of Bangladesh Bank Governor: Ahsan H. Mansur replaced by Md Mostaqur Rahman as 14th Governor, effective 26 February 2026; drew criticism over central bank independence. ↗↗
- 2026-03-06 international PM addressed diplomats at an iftar event, articulating Bangladesh’s foreign policy as pragmatic and sovereignty-based (‘friendship to all’); urged diplomatic support for Bangladesh’s candidacy for presidency of the 81st UN General Assembly session. ↗
- 2026-03-10 policy PM inaugurated the Family Card pilot programme in 14 upazilas of Bogura district; cards issued to eldest female household members providing Tk 2,500 monthly assistance to low-income families. ↗↗
- 2026-04-20 other PM made first official visit to home district Bogura since assuming office; first domestic divisional tour as Prime Minister. ↗↗
- 2026-05-10 statement PM inaugurated Police Week 2026 at Rajarbagh Police Lines (theme: ‘My Police, My Country, Bangladesh Comes First’); subsequently addressed senior police officers at Shapla Hall of the PMO, directing them to treat offenders strictly as criminals regardless of political identity and reaffirming zero tolerance for corruption and terrorism. ↗↗↗
- 2026-05-14 appointment PMO directed appointment of new vice-chancellors to 11 public universities. ↗
Provenance & notes
established_year set to 1972 (formal parliamentary PMO, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 12 January 1972) rather than the 1970 date on Wikipedia (which refers to the pre-independence East Pakistan office) or the 27 August 1970 Wikipedia date which predates Bangladesh's existence. The PMO was formally constituted under the 1972 Constitution's Westminster-model framework. annual_budget_bdt omitted: Bangladesh Ministry of Finance PMO budget PDF timed out; figure is not independently verifiable from search results without the source document -- per data integrity rules, no figure is preferable to an unverified estimate. staff_count not publicly reported in accessible sources. BNP seat count: BNP alone 209 seats; BNP-led alliance 212 seats of 299 declared (source: Election Commission Senior Secretary via BSS, and Al Jazeera). Attached agencies under PMO per Wikipedia: Cabinet Division, Armed Forces Division, BEZA, BEPZA, BIDA, PPPA, NSI, SSF, NGO Affairs Bureau, GIU, SRCC, PEPZ, Ashrayan Project, A2I Programme. Principal Secretary: ABM Abdus Sattar; Press Secretary: Abu Abdullah M. Saleh; Defence Adviser: Brig Gen (retd) AKM Shamsul Islam. Rules of Business first gazetted 1975 (under Ziaur Rahman military government), comprehensively revised and retitled as Rules of Business 1996 under Cabinet Division.
Sources
- https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tarique-rahman-sworn-pm-25-ministers-24-state-ministers-also-take-oath-4108321
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