Online Desk: Three women MPs have been inducted in the new cabinet of the newly elected government to take oaths on Thursday.

They are Dr Dipu Moni, Rumana Ali, and Simeen Hossain (Rimi). Of them, Dipu will take the oath as minister and two others as state ministers.

The new cabinet has 25 ministers and 11 state ministers. Of them, 20 are new, including two women who are new faces in the cabinet this year.

Seven candidates were contested in Chandpur-3 constituency. Awami League-nominated candidate Dipu Moni won 1,09,046 votes in 165 centres.

According to the information received, Dipu’s nearest rival independent candidate, Mir Shamsul Alam, got only 24,183 votes.

Rumana Ali, the incumbent MP from reserved seats for women, won the Gazipur-3 constituency, securing 24,522 votes with the boat symbol.

Rumana Ali got 126,196 votes in the election. Her nearest rival and Gazipur district Awami League general secretary, Muhammad Iqbal Hossain Sabuj, got 101,674 votes with the truck symbol.

In Gazipur-4 constituency, Awami League candidate Simeen Hossain Rimi got 63,401 votes, while her nearest rival independent candidate, Afsaruddin Ahmed Khan, got 26,349 votes.

Rimi is the elder sister of former MP and state minister Sohel Taj.

Rimi and Sohel Taj’s father, Tajuddin Ahmad, was the first prime minister of Bangladesh. Independent candidate Afsaruddin Ahmad Khan is Tajuddin’s brother.