India, Feb. 1 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) legislators on Sunday left for New Delhi for a meeting on Monday, days before the six-month extension of the president's rule in the ethnic violence-hit northeastern state ends. The president's rule was imposed on February 13 last year as sporadic violence continued in the state.

"We earlier had a meeting of the BJP legislators. This time, all the legislators of NDA have been called...so it is likely about the new government formation," BJP lawmaker and former chief minister N Biren Singh told the media at the Imphal airport before his departure to Delhi.

BJP's Manipur chief A Sharda Devi hoped the Monday meeting would lead to the formation of a new...