The delegation will be submitting its report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday morning in Parliament. Schools need to reopen and people need to lead a normal life, members of the delegation also said.
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Government sources have maintained that by such gesture, the Huriyat has “mishandled” the episode and this has only frustrated common people in the state.
“In the week spanning from 29 August to 5 September, a total of eighty public meetings/rallies were held across all districts of Kashmir among which government forcibly disrupted 36 rallies, using extensive of force against the assembled people; shelling with bullets, tear gas shells and pellets”, he said. Whatever transpired there and on the basis of information given to us by members of the delegation, I can say that the response does not reflect Kashmiriyat. While some opposition leaders met Hurriyat Conference leaders lodged in various sub jails, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani refused to meet them.
They asked both the governments to take steps to ensure that the education institutions, the government offices and commercial establishments start functioning at the earliest.
BJP MLC Surinder Ambardar who led the Kashmiri Pandit delegation to meet the all-party delegation headed by Singh in Jammu reiterated that for lasting peace in Kashmir it is imperative that Kashmiri Pandits are settled at one place in Valley along with statutory political rights.
The all party delegation to Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday asserted that there could be no compromises made on issues of national sovereignty.
The Centre may harden its attitude towards separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, making their foreign travel hard and scaling down the security which they enjoy at the exchequer’s cost. The party was of the view that the chief minister had stuck to New Delhi’s line in the present crisis and should be given all the support she needed, sources said. They had gone there in their individual capacity, ” the home minister told reporters before winding up the all-party delegation’s visit.
Maulana Raza said Kashmir was a part of Indiaand it would remain so. The delegation also appealed for peace and dialogue.
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The immediate move should be to restore normalcy in the Valley. “I am hopeful that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir will improve”, he said after meeting some “300 people including students, teachers, traders” during the delegation’s almost 30-hour stay in the valley.
