Dhaka, Dec. 2 -- The government has suspended a workshop concerning law and order surrounding the upcoming parliamentary election and the referendum.

The home ministry announced the move in a letter on Tuesday without specifying a reason.

The workshop titled "Integrated Role in Maintaining Law and Order for Fair Election", was scheduled to be held on Dec 3 at 9:30am at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre, but has been postponed "due to unavoidable reasons", the ministry said.

The letter notified the cabinet secretary, chief advisor's principal secretary, senior secretaries of the Ministry of Public Administration and the Election Commission Secretariat, principal staff officer of the Armed Forces Division, inspector gener...