The newly elected members of the parliament (MPs) of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have taken oath at the South Plaza of the National Parliament on Tuesday.
The oath was administered by Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin around 10:42am.
The new cabinet is scheduled to take the oath in the afternoon at the South Plaza of the parliament, with the president set to administer the oath to the cabinet members.
After administering the oath to the newly elected MPs, the CEC will also swear in the members of the Constitution Reform Commission.
According to the Constitution, in the absence of the speaker or deputy speaker, the responsibility of administering the oath to new parliament members falls on the CEC.
A four-tier security arrangement has been put in place around the parliament area for the ceremony.
More than 1,000 local and foreign guests attended the ceremony.
The Election Commission published the gazette of 297 elected MPs on February 13, following the February 12 elections.
According to the EC’s official results, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance won 211 seats out of 297, while the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance secured 77 seats. Independent candidates won seven seats.
