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All-party
team visit to Kashmir likely on Monday
Friday, September 17, 2010 08:25:46 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Congress core committee met Thursday to discuss the
Kashmir situation as the government was working out modalities for
an all-party delegation to visit the troubled state, likely on
Monday.
The Congress committee meeting, which was held at Prime Minister
Minister Manmohan Singh's residence, was attended by Congress
president Sonia Gandhi, her political secretary Ahmed Patel, and
senior ministers A.K. Antony, Pranab Mukherjee and P. Chidambaram.
The meeting discussed the approach to the all-party visit,
Congress circles said.
The core committee met on the day Congress general secretary Rahul
Gandhi supported Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
and said that "Omar needed support and time" to handle the "tough
and sensitive" Kashmir job.
Soon after Rahul Gandhi's statement in Kolkata, Omar's father
Farooq Abdullah met Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh separately.
Emerging from the meeting with the prime minister, Farooq said
that "Omar has no intention of quitting".
The details about the all-party team were still being worked out,
Congress circles said.
"Things are not finalised so far. Many partymen from Jammu and
Kashmir want Sonia to be in the delegation to give a healing touch
to the residents, caught in the three-month-old violence and
disruption," an office-bearer of the All India Congress Committee
told IANS.
If Sonia Gandhi joins the team, senior leaders of other parties
like L.K. Advani (Bharatiya Janata Party), Prakash Karat
(Communist Party of India-Marxist) and Mulayam Singh Yadav (Samajwadi
Party) may join the delegation, sources said.
"Wait for a day more. The picture will be clear on Friday," a
senior home ministry official told IANS.
The union home ministry, alongwith the Jammu and Kashmir
government, is facilitating the visit.
An all-party meeting on Kashmir here Wednesday, chaired by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, decided to send an all-party delegation
to Kashmir where 90 civilians, mostly teenagers and youth, have
been killed in firing by security forces in the cycle of violence
triggered by street protests since June 11.
The meeting was of the view that any decision on the demand for
withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and
release of prisoners may be taken after the all-party team gets a
first hand impression of the situation in Kashmir.
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