Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- Moving into the election mode, the Election Commission will start a series of dialogues with registered political parties this week to lay the groundwork for the upcoming national election scheduled for February.

But the political parties would be invited in groups to join the discussions due to time constraints before the election schedule to be announced in early December, according to EC officials

They said the dialogues, considered the Commission's last major task before the election schedule, will take around two weeks to complete ahead of the 13th parliamentary election.

"The dialogues with political parties will begin next week. It will have to invite them in groups due to time constraints (before the announceme...