The Election Commission of Bangladesh announced that new members of Bangladesh’s Parliament will be sworn in at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Alongside the MPs, the Constitution Reform Commission will also take the oath. Later that afternoon, the new Cabinet led by BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman will be sworn in. Around 1,200 guests from Bangladesh and abroad are expected to attend the swearing-in of Tarique Rahman and his Cabinet, announced the BNP media wing. Some newly elected MPs expressed surprise as they were not informed about the oath for the Constitution Reform Commission. According to reports, the entire Parliament will serve as the Constitution Reform Commission for 180 days following a referendum held on February 12. The referendum resulted in a majority 'yes' vote, meaning all MPs will also become members of this Commission. This has caused unease among some MPs, especially from the BNP, about how their roles will be divided between Parliament and the Commission. Prominent foreign guests attending include: Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Pakistan’s Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Nepal’s interim Foreign Minister Bala Nanda Sharma, and Sri Lanka’s Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa. The UK will be represented by Indo-Pacific Under Secretary Seema Malhotra. The President of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, is also expected. Countries like Qatar, Malaysia, and Brunei will send high-level delegates, along with heads of diplomatic missions based in Dhaka. The event will take place at Bangladesh’s Parliament, Jatiyo Sansad. This ceremony will mark the end of the interim government led by Chief Adviser Mohammed Yunus, who took charge on August 8, 2024, after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government. On Monday evening, Prof. Yunus gave a farewell speech on state-owned BTV, highlighting institutional reforms and the end of police torture. “The election was not just a process to handover power. It was the election that marked the beginning of new Bangladesh,” said Prof. Yunus. He urged all political parties to support the July Charter, a major reform project of the interim government, adopted by many parties on October 17, 2017. Even the National Citizen Party, part of the opposition 11-party alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami, signed the Charter on Monday evening.