All-party delegation heads to Kashmir today
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: September 20, 2010 08:54 IST
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New Delhi: An all-party peace team, led by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, is on its way to Kashmir to feel the pulse of the people.
The delegation will meet various political parties and people's forums in Srinagar on its two-day visit, and will focus on reaching out to as many Kashmiris as possible and hear out their grievances. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said feedback from the delegation will help evolve the government's strategy on J&K issues.
The 39-member delegation will also attempt to meet various separatist groups in a bid to break the present impasse. The Kashmir Valley has been in the grip of a vicious cycle of violence and over 100 people have been killed in clashes with security forces in the last three months.
Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani of the Hurriyat Conference has, however, refused to meet the delegation, calling it an "eye-wash". Moderate separatists like Mirwaz Umar Farook, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front's Yasin Malik have been sent an invite, but are yet to decide.
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The main Opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), who had said that the delegation must meet all sides, has also said she will reconsider her decision to meet the delegation if curfew continues in the Valley.
The delegation will be in the Valley today and in Jammu tomorrow. The last such delegation visited J&K 20 years ago, led by then Deputy PM Devi Lal to review law & order.
Some of the key members of the all-party delegation include:
Home Minister P Chidambaram (leading the delegation)
Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley (BJP leaders and Leaders of opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively)
Mulayam Singh Yadav (Samajwadi Party)
T R Baalu (DMK)
Ramvilas Paswan (LJP)
Sharad Yadav (JD-U)
E Ahamed (Indian Union Muslim League)
Gurudas Dasgupta (CPI)
Basudeb Acharya (CPM)
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