The BNP leaders who won seats in the parliamentary election will not take the oath of office, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam has said.
He was speaking to reporters outside the BNP chairperson’s office at Gulshan on Thursday noon.
Paddy sheaf candidates were in an “emergency meeting” with Mirza Fakhrul, while oath was being administered to newly-elected MPs of parliament in the morning, bdnews24.com reported.
“Why should we take oath when we have rejected this election,” he told reporters.
Seeing that the BNP leaders will not take oath, they will remain out of the new parliament as well.
The party had to stay out of the last and tenth parliament too after it had boycotted the election in January 2013.