Cracks begin to appear in Bangladesh politics once again after Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami clashed over oath-taking on ‘referendum’ on Tuesday.Bangladesh’s right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami’s newly elected MPs refused to take the oath of office after the victorious BNP declined to take the pledge as members of ‘Constitution Reform Council’.Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasirudin administered the oath of office to the BNP MPs inside the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the first phase, and Jamaat MPs were next in line to take the oath. The situation got complicated after BNP declined to take the second oath as members of the ‘Constitution Reform Council’ to endorse the referendum.“We will take no oath unless BNP MPs take oath as members of ‘Constitution Reform Council’ alongside regular parliament members,” Jamaat’s deputy chief Abdullah Mohammad Taher said.He said their party believed “parliament without the constitutional reform was meaningless”. The second oath is aimed at obligating MPs to implement the much drummed up “July Charter” demanding the Constitution to be massively rewritten, while the 84-point complex proposal was laid out in the referendum in a cognised but nearly esoteric form for voting.The election commission reported that over 60 per cent of voters cast a “yes” vote in the referendum.“We have not been elected as members of the Constitution Reform Council; no provision of the council is yet to be incorporated in the Constitution,” BNP’s policy-making standing committee member and newly elected member Salahuddin Ahmed said.