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All-party
team to visit Jammu Tuesday
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:44:18 AM,
IANS
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Leaders
of all party delegation meet Kashmir separatists
Indian political leaders held ice-breaking talks Monday with
Kashmiri separatist leaders in the glare of television cameras
after three months of unprecedented street violence left 102
people dead in the valley and New Delhi grappling for ways to
restore peace.
After
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Jammu:
The all-party team led by union Home Minister P. Chidambaram,
which is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, arrives in Jammu
Tuesday afternoon from Srinagar.
The 39-member delegation, which is visiting the state to get a
sense of the ground situation before deciding on steps to defuse
tensions, will meet a cross section of people here, including
political groups and Kashmiri Hindu migrants and traders. The
region's major political group Jammu Kashmir National Panthers
Party (JKNPP) has decided to boycott it.
Contrary to the tension in Srinagar, it was business as usual in
Jammu.
"We will project our point of view and tell the delegation how
each time trouble breaks out in the Kashmir Valley, Jammu
suffers," said Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry president
Y.V. Sharma.
"This time, we are again at the receiving end because our trade
has suffered on two counts - our stocks are rotting here and we
are not getting orders from there; our money is locked on both
sides," Sharma told IANS.
Many political leaders here, especially those from smaller groups
espousing the cause of regional equality like the JKNPP, feel that
the visit of the team to Jammu is just a "tag along".
"This all party delegation has done what it did, by reaching out
to separatists in the valley, and projecting their cause, rather
than countering the secessionist propaganda," JKNPP president
Balwant Singh Mankotia said.
The common person had little expectation and said the delegation
would "do no good" to Jammu.
"The delegation has a partisan approach. This was amply
demonstrated when the delegates visited the separatists in
Srinagar," said an unemployed Amit Sharma who is in his 30s.
"Did they visit any of the migrant properties that were burnt down
by rioters in the past three months. Not only that, they did not
even utter a word about the absence of the Hindu population in the
valley," said Vasundhara Jalali, a migrant who teaches in a
private school here.
The delegation will be here until Wednesday morning. Its visit to
the volatile Kashmir valley, where more than 100 people have been
killed since June 11, resulted in ice-breaking talks with Kashmiri
separatist leaders in the glare of television cameras.
After Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq and Yasin Malik of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
refused to meet the all-party delegation that flew in from New
Delhi, the visiting politicians broke into small groups and met
the three prominent faces of the two decades old separatist
movement.
Besides Chidambaram, the delegation includes Parliamentary Affairs
Minister P.K. Bansal (Congress) as well as Arun Jaitley and Sushma
Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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