Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

The Advisory Council is currently navigating the challenge of balancing its role as a non-elected policy oversight body with the need to maintain public and parliamentary confidence in the post-uprising political landscape.

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.