Yesterday, the governor, who is a former national security adviser, called a meeting of the DM, SP and senior district officials to make an assessment of the law and order situation there.

“We may meet him tomorrow,” Morcha assistant general secretary Amar Lama said, refusing to divulge more. The outfit has called a 10-day bandh from June 12 to June 21 to press for its demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland.

Yesterday, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had said since the Governor was the constitutional head of the state, he could mediate in any matter he liked.

Meanwhile, the proposed political-level talks among the GJM, the state government and the Centre, scheduled to be held on May 25, stands cancelled.

While the GJM has already said it would not attend it, state Home Secretary Samar Ghosh today said, “The meeting is not going to be held.”

In a related development, a three-day bandh began in the Dooars region of north Bengal on call given by Adivasi Bikas Unnayan Parishad, which demanded that the questions for primary school teachers’ examination due to be held soon be set in Adivasi languages like Alchiki.