The Election Commission in Bangladesh has suspended its November 22 dialogue with the government-backed Bangladesh Nationalist Party and decided to wait until the High Court gives a verdict on the issue.
The Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Alam said that as the High Court has stayed the operation of the invitation, the scheduled dialogue with BNP will not be held on November 22.
He told the reporters on Monday that the commission will wait until the matter is legally settled. The CEC made the statement a day after the High Court put a four-week freeze on the commission’s invitation to BNP’s acting secretary general Hafiz Uddin Ahmad for a dialogue on electoral reforms.