Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for operations with switching active bandwidth parts (BWPs), such as for radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure recovery, random access, and/or other operations. As described herein, a UE may be configured with one or more sets of BWPs. The UE may determine/select the uplink and/or downlink BWP to use. For example, the UE can determine to use an active BWP or to switch to another BWP. The UE may use the BWP during operations, such as RLM, beam failure recovery, and/or random access, etc. for monitoring on the downlink and/or for transmitting on the uplink.