Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi has invited the Trinamul Congress, BJP, CPM and the Congress to a meeting at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday to discuss the post-poll violence in the state. All the four parties confirmed that they would attend the meeting at 4pm. A bureaucrat has said the governor convening the meeting is an interesting move in the backdrop of discussions on “breakdown” of law and order in Bengal. The governor had already met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah and discussed the law and order in Bengal. Asked whether there was any chance of President’s rule in Bengal, he said in an interview with India Today on Monday: “There might be.

Source: The Telegraph June 12, 2019 19:41 UTC