Shafiqul Alam, press secretary of the chief adviser, said that only four advisers of the interim government have NGO background. He said this in a post on his Facebook account on Friday.

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In a Facebook post, Shafiqul Alam wrote some facts to prove that the interim government is not 'NGO-governed. There are also comments from some notable people. They are promoting the idea that the advisory council headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus has a preponderance of people from Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) background.

To prove them wrong, he writes, official records of the 21-member advisory council show that only four advisers have NGO backgrounds, two of whom are top lawyers.

The press secretary said that there are at least 9 retired government officials including five former bureaucrats, two diplomats and two senior military officers in the advisory council. The rest include a former attorney general, a freedom fighter, two student leaders, four academics and writers and two microfinance and social business pioneers.