On Tuesday West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed with him the security condition in the state in advance of the Assembly elections near the beginning next year.

For the duration of the 30-minute meeting, Chidambaram and Bhattacharjee are supposed to have discussed Trinamool Congress' claim for withdrawal of joint forces from Maoist-hit Jangal Mahal area.

According to the sources, both the leaders are implicated to have discussed the continuing operation in opposition to the Maoists.

The chief minister has been strongly supporting the joint anti-Naxal operation which was launched by the Central and state forces in Maoist-dominated areas of West Bengal.

In the 1980s the Gorkhaland Movement that began had ended with a treaty between the then-leader Subhash Ghising and New Delhi after he accepted limited self-rule in 1988 with a new Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC).

The ongoing talks with Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha has been leading light a movement on the demand for a separate Gorkha land including Darjeeling and some adjoining areas, also figured in the meeting.