Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin administers oath to Tarique Rahman.
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5 days after the parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, Tarique Rahman, chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP), was sworn in as the brand new Prime Minister of Bangladesh on Tuesday (February 17, 2026).
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The swearing-in of the brand new Prime Minister and his ministerial colleagues got here hours after Chief Election Commissioner A.M.M Nasir Uddin administered the oath of parliament to the newly elected members of BNP within the parliament of Bangladesh – Jatiyo Sansad.
As the brand new Prime Minister Mr. Rahman will lead a staff of twenty-five cupboard ministers and twenty-four ministers of state, who have been all administered oath by President of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahabuddin.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chaudhury, Salahuddin Ahmed, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku – distinguished members of the Nationwide Standing Committee of the BNP, and Nitai Roy Choudhury, Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossein, Abdul Awal Mintu, Rashiduzzaman Millat, Shama Obaid from the BNP govt committee have been sworn in as cupboard ministers.
Whereas a lot of the ministers sworn in have been elected MPs within the February 12 election, the ministry will even embody Mohammed Amir Ur Rashid below the ‘technocrats’ class.
BNP’s ally Gonosanghati Andolan’s Jonaid Saki, a well-liked face among the many gen-z protesters for his radical feedback, will probably be a state minister as effectively.
In a continuity from the Interim Authorities the present Nationwide Safety Adviser Dr. Khalilur Rahman has been included among the many cupboard ministers as a ‘technocrat’ as effectively. BNP sources have confirmed that Dr. Rahman who’s been the face of Bangladesh’s diplomacy concerning the Rohingya subject would be the subsequent overseas minister of Bangladesh.
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Round 1,200 overseas and home friends attended the swearing-in ceremony that happened within the South Plaza of the parliament. President of the Maldives Mohamed Muizzu, Pakistan’s Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Indian Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri have been among the many overseas dignitaries who attended the swearing-in ceremony.
The method of switch of energy from the interim authorities led by Chief Adviser Prof. Mohammed Yunus began earlier this morning with when Chairman of BNP Tarique Rahman led the BNP-alliance members to the parliament, the place they have been administered the oath of membership of the parliament by Chief Election Commissioner A.M.M. Nasir Uddin within the Oath Taking Corridor of the parliament.
Earlier than the process, standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed took the microphone and mentioned that the BNP members who have been current on the event within the parliament is not going to take oath for being a part of the “Structure Reform Fee”.
“None of us have been elected as members of the Structure Reform Fee and the oath for this fee has not but turn into a part of the constitutional course of,” mentioned Mr. Ahmed asserting that he’s conveying the choice of the occasion concerning the Structure Reform Fee within the presence of Chairman Tarique Rahman.
The oath taking ceremony was paused after the BNP members have been sworn in with the members of the opposition bloc not displaying up with studies that the elected members of the Jamaat-e-Islami –led 11-party alliance have been pondering of boycotting the swearing-in ceremony. They, nonetheless, arrived within the parliament accompanied by the newly elected unbiased MPs the place they have been administered two separate oaths for the parliament in addition to the Structure Reform Fee.
The dual-oath process was conceived to combine the outcomes of the parliamentary election in addition to referendum for intensive constitutional modification by together with the July Constitution into the structure.
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The July Constitution, a doc that was adopted by the interim authorities in session with political events on October 17, 2025, is predicated on suggestions that have been acquired to alter governance in Bangladesh after the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina-led authorities on August 5, 2024.
The BNP has mentioned that although they’d signed the July Constitution on October 17, 2025, the ultimate textual content of the July Constitution has gone far past what they’d agreed to.
Revealed – February 17, 2026 04:57 pm IST