Dhaka, Feb. 17 -- Jamaat-e-Islami has indicated it may reconsider participating in the swearing-in ceremony for MPs after the BNP declined to take oath as members of the Constitution Reform Council.

BNP lawmakers were sworn in on Tuesday as members of the 13th National Parliament but refused the separate oath linked to the proposed reform council.

In response, Jamaat leaders said they were reviewing their position, reports bdnews24.com.

"We will now decide whether we will take the oath at all," Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar told bdnews24.com.

The party's deputy chief Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher said: "There are complications. You will know [our decision soon]."

Mohammad Nazibur Rahman, elected from Pabna-1, said Jamaat M...