According to the new party charter passed by the national council of BNP, war criminals convicted under "Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order, 1972" can now have membership or leadership of BNP's committees at any level and even get BNP nominations for contesting in parliamentary elections as the party has deleted the barring provision from its constitution. "War Crimes Fact Finding Committee", an organization advocating the movement against war-crimes committed amid the 1971 liberation struggle reveals, "By deleting the provision from its constitution, BNP is encouraging war criminals unethically to do politics".