Repelling the notion that the all-party delegation visit to Jammu and Kashmir was a “failure”, the Home Minister earlier on Monday said the delegation will meet in Delhi to chalk out an action plan for the government on measures that it needed to take in future in Jammu and Kashmir. “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.
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Immediately after the resolution was adopted at a meeting of the members of the delegation that visited the troubled state recently, Jammu and Kashmir’s former chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted: “I’m struggling to find a single achievement that the all party delegation can lay claim to after visiting J&K”. Soon after the meeting, the clerics said there was no need to meet the Hurriyat Conference members in Kashmir as they are the people who raise pro-Pakistan slogans. Singh also appealed to the people to shun path of violence and said that they are open to speak to all the stakeholders. While some opposition leaders met Hurriyat Conference leaders lodged in various sub jails, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani refused to meet them.
A blueprint for a solution to the Kashmir crisis is expected to be drawn at a meeting of political parties that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is holding with the all-party delegation today.
Expressing serious concern about the prevailing situation in the State, the statement said “there can be no compromises on the issues of national sovereignty”.
The all-party delegation led by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh also visited Jammu to meet people from cross sections of the society, in cluding 15 non-political delegations. “We also appeal to the state government to take proper steps for the government institutions in the state to start working”.
Panun Kashmir, an organization representing Kashmiri Pandits, also boycotted a scheduled meeting with the all-party delegation, condemning the lawmakers for “begging before separatists” for a meeting. We talked about the Kashmir issue.
Interacting with media after the meeting, Yechury said that his party has sought replacement of pellet guns.
Besides, the Centre may also examine their bank accounts and complete pending investigations in cases against them, so that a strong message goes around that those provoking youths in Kashmir Valley will not be spared, government sources said. Kashmir has been crippled by unrest for the last 59 days, with prolonged curfew amid violent protests and clashes in which over 74 people have died and almost 10,000 have been injured.
Singh described their visit as positive but he lashed out at the separatists for their refusal to meet MPs.
The ties between the two countries have nosedived in recent months.
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The all-party delegation had reached J&K on Sunday, almost two months after a bloody unrest erupted in the aftermath of the July 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen “commander” Burhan Wani. Yechury, Sharad Yadav of the Janata Dal (United), the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Jay Prakash Narayan, AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi and the CPI’s D Raja had gone to meet Hurriyat leaders but the latter declined to meet them.
