BNP’s newly elected members of the 13th National Parliament took their oaths on Tuesday morning at the Parliament Building, administered by Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin. Following the ceremony, the party held a parliamentary meeting where Tarique Rahman was elected as the parliamentary party leader. The BNP members did not take oath as members of the Constitutional Reform Council.

Later in the day, at 4 p.m., the cabinet is scheduled to take oath at the South Plaza of the Parliament Building. After the party’s landslide victory in the February 12 election, BNP Chairperson Tarique Rahman is set to be sworn in as the new Prime Minister. This marks the party’s return to power for the sixth time after nearly two decades without democratic governance. Tarique Rahman, who previously played a key role in BNP’s 2001 victory, is credited as the architect of this electoral success.

BNP won 209 parliamentary seats, though one seat was vacated following Rahman’s resignation from Bogura-6, and two others remain pending due to court cases. The party may include allied MPs as state ministers in the new cabinet.