June 24 talks Centre’s bid for political outreach
All eyes are set on the formal response of the People’s Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to the invitation from Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, to attend the all-party meet convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June 24.
The Prime Minister’s meeting on June 24 with the political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is expected to be about the delimitation exercise. The meeting is an attempt by the Centre to seek political validation of the administrative exercise which started in the first week of June. But Kashmiri leaders have their own agenda for initiating the talks.
“We have stressed for a collective fight and hence the PAGD will send two representatives to the meeting in New Delhi,” a news channel quoted a senior leader, who attended the meeting, as saying. “Mehbooba has not decided to boycott the meeting. We are in favour of a political process but it’s a collective fight and hence we will all meet to decide who all should represent us in the meeting and convey the aspirations of the people,” the senior leader stressed on the condition of anonymity.