AGARTALA, February 15 (TIWN): President Pranab Mukherjee appreciated Home Minister Rajnath Singh's suggestion to actively involve the governors in the internal security related apparatus and requested him to consider convening separate meetings with groups of governors having similar problems like the northeastern states, coastal states and states with international borders.He also suggested that the defence minister, similarly, involve governors of states having an international border in a focused interaction on border and security issues.The president said the authority that governors or Lt. Governors exercise is based on a moral premise, and as long as the exercise of that authority is confined to the boundaries of the Constitution, he did not see the possibility of any diminution of their role.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh alongwith Kiran Rijiju, Minister of state for Home affairs, Sambhu Singh, Joint Secretary of Ministry of Home Affairs and other high officials visited BOP Khantalang of 98 BN BSF on Saturday to take stock of internal security in Tripura sector. Addressing the 46th conference of governors at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Mukherjee said governors and Lt.

Governors have an important role to play in making cooperative federalism a reality, an official statement said.

"They are all people with great experience in public life. They occupy an important space in our constitutional structure. They also function as a sentinel of the constitution and a live link with the union.