As a flag-off to negotiations, representatives from the state government including the industries minister Nirupam Sen met the Governor today in the morning while the Trinamool Congress leaders and their allies are scheduled to meet Gopal Krishna Gandhi at 2 today.
The morning meeting at the Raj Bhavan was attended by the state Commerce & Industry Secretary Sabyasachi Sen, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Subesh Das apart from Nirupam Sen. The state Panchayat Minister & a leading rural leader of the Left Front, Suryakant Mishra did not attend the meeting.
Today's meeting is expected to set the agenda for tomorrow's talks that will be attended by the state government representatives and the Trinamool Congress (TC).
TC leader Partha Chatterjee together with Kalyan Bannerji, TC lawyer, Debobrata Bannerji, ex-land reforms commissioner, and naxalite leader Purnendu Bose, will meet the governor later during the day.