The newly elected Members of Parliament and the new prime minister along with members of the new cabinet are now scheduled to take oath on Tuesday.

The oath-taking ceremony of the lawmakers will be held at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad building at 10:00am while the swearing-in event of the cabinet members will take place at the same venue at 4:00pm.

Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin will administer the oath to the lawmakers, while president Mohammed Shahabuddin will conduct the oath to the prime minister and other cabinet members.

Foreign dignitaries, including Indian Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, foreign ministers of the countries belonging to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation are scheduled to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the new government — expected to be led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman.

The 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections, held on Thursday alongside a referendum, resulted in the BNP securing an absolute majority with 209 of the 297 seats, for which results were published among the 299 seats that went to the polls, enabling the party to form the next government.

Former BNP ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami won 68 seats and is set to serve as the opposition party in parliament.

After a cabinet meeting chaired by chief adviser Muhammad Yunus at his office in Tejgaon on Sunday, law adviser Asif Nazrul told reporters at his ministry office that the newly elected lawmakers would take oath at 10:00am on Tuesday.

‘Most probably under the current circumstances, the oath will be administered by the CEC,’ he said.

The law adviser said that he had learnt from the BNP that immediately after the oath-taking, the lawmakers would elect their parliamentary party leader at the same venue, likely between 11:30am and 12:00 noon.

‘The oath-taking of the cabinet members will take place also at the South Plaza of the JS building at 4:00pm,’ he added.

Regarding the implementation of the July National Charter, special assistant to the chief adviser Ali Riaz said on Saturday that the Implementation Order 2025 clearly directed that a Constitution Reform Council would be formed by the elected Members of Parliament.

He said that the council would incorporate the reform proposals stipulated in the charter into the constitution within 180 days of its formation.

Ali Riaz also said that the newly elected legislators would take two separate oaths — one as lawmakers in the Jatiya Sangsad and another as members of

the Constitution Reform Council.

For the first time, the new government will begin its journey with cabinet members taking the oath at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad.

Traditionally, lawmakers were sworn in at the parliament’s oath room, while cabinet members took oath at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban, office-cum residence of the president.

However, Asif Nazrul said that both ceremonies would be held at the South Plaza as preferred by the incoming government.

On whether the Indian prime minister would attend, he said that he had no such information.

‘What I have heard so far is that the ministry of foreign affairs has informed the foreign ministers of SAARC countries. I have no information about any prime minister attending,’ he said.

Ahead of the oath-taking ceremony, the Cabinet Division and the parliament secretariat have started preparations.

Cabinet secretary M Siraj Uddin Mia will conduct the oath-taking programmes.

As per the rules, following the swearing-in of the newly elected lawmakers, a meeting of the BNP parliamentary board will be held to elect its parliamentary leader.

The elected leader will then meet the president and formally inform him that the party commands an absolute majority in parliament, seeking appointment as prime minister.

The president will appoint the party leader as prime minister, who will subsequently select members of the cabinet.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin, as the head of state, will administer the oath first to the prime minister, followed by ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers.

According to the constitution, elected members are required to take oath within three days of the publication of the gazette.

On Friday night, the Election Commission published the gazette notification on the JS results for 297 of the 299 seats in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections.