DHAKA:Bangladesh’s right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami’s newly elected Members of Parliament on Tuesday refused to take the oath of office after the victorious BNP’s denial to take the pledge as members of the “Constitution Reform Council”.
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasirudin administered the oath of office to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) MPs inside the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the first phase, and Jamaat MPs were next in line to take the oath.
The situation got complicated after BNP declined to take the second oath as members of the “Constitution Reform Council” to endorse the referendum.