India, Dec. 12 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has convened a meeting of the party's Manipur lawmakers in Delhi on Sunday to discuss the situation of the ethnic violence-hit state.

Former chief minister N Biren Singh said all the BJP lawmakers have been asked to attend the meeting, even as they were not given the exact agenda. "...it might be for government formation. Most of us are going..."

Manipur has been under the President's rule since February, when Singh's government was dismissed as violence continued sporadically despite the deployment of thousands of security personnel.

The state's Meitei and the Kuki-Zo communities have shut each other out from areas dominated by them since ethnic clashes began in May 2023 and left at l...