CM of J&K also thanked all the parties for visitng the state to listen to the problems of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Yechury, who faced a snub from Geelani on Sunday, said he had not given up on the mission to bring peace in Kashmir.
The Home minister Rajnath Singh said that what I learnt from some members of the all-party delegation, who went to meet the separatist leaders, was certainly neither “Kashmiriyat” nor “insaniyat” (humane). Whatever happened you know about it. I don’t want to get into details. “We will meet in Delhi after our return and will chalk out our future course”, was all he said. It can not be called as Insaniyat (humanity).
Gupta said, “We asked the major Opposition parties in India as to why they did not condole and condemn the attacks on our security forces and the deaths of soldiers”.
Meanwhile All party delegation arrived in Jammu today to hold talks with cross- section of society to restore peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir.
In addition to the political parties, delegations of academicians, teachers and student assciations, representatives of school management, prominent NGOs, representatives of Leh, Kargil, Pahari associations, Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, Fruit & Saffron Growers associtions, Civil Society etc. also met the All Party meeting visiting Srinagar.
Top separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Syed Ali Geelani, on Saturday refused to attend talks with non-BJP MPs like Asaduddin Owaisi, CPI (M)’s Sitaram Yechuri, CPI’s D Raja and Janta Dal United’s Sharad Yadav.
“There are no two ways about the fact that Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India, was a part of India and will be a part of India”, Singh said while spelling out the Centre’s stand.
It was destined because Pakistan had promised added moral, material and diplomatic support to them provided they spurn talks offer.
The latest wave of unrest that has convulsed Kashmir since the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani on July 8, has claimed 73 lives so far.
The pellet guns are meant to minimise fatalities in protests although the law gives the armed forces a relatively free hand to use lethal force, especially against suspected militants.
The PAVA shells underwent trials for over a year at the Lucknow-based Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, a government laboratory. “Geelani sullied Kashmiriyat”, Mr Drabu said in the most stringent attack yet by the PDP on the Hurriyat Conference.
“Government should invite Hurriyat for talks with the all-party delegation.The invitation extended to others should be given to Hurriyat also”.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti walked out of a press conference with Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday even as the Centre promised an alternative to pellet guns that have left thousands of people with eye injuries in the Valley. It is the responsibility of the government to deal with the situation very intelligently.
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Talking to The Citizen, senior Hurriyat leader, Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, said only a “sustained dialogue” between India and Pakistan can be followed by any engagement of the Hurriyat with New Delhi or the Jammu and Kashmir government.
