Staff Correspondent:
Before the oath-taking ceremony began on Tuesday (February 17, 2026) morning, BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed said, “Today, none of us BNP MPs have been elected as members of the Constitutional Reform Council. It has not yet been enshrined in the constitution.”
He said this to all the elected BNP MPs at the Parliament Secretariat.
Salahuddin Ahmed said, “None of us have been elected as members of the Constitutional Reform Council. It has not yet been enshrined in the constitution.” If the Constitutional Reform Council is formed according to the referendum verdict, it must be enshrined in the constitution first. Provisions must be made as to who will take the oath as a member of the Constitutional Reform Council. This form is not in the constitution (blue). The form is in the third schedule (white).
He further explained that the specific form of the oath is in the third schedule of the constitution. What is currently there is white or general. When the issue of the Constitutional Reform Council is added to the Third Schedule and is constitutionally accepted in the National Assembly, only then will the legal basis be created for the members to take oath. Till then, we are following the constitutional process.
The senior BNP leader made it clear that the BNP has always followed the constitution and will continue to do so in the future. He said that the decision was taken on the instructions of the party chairman Tarique Rahman.
