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All party delegation wraps three day visit to
Jammu & Kashmir
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:41:47 AM,
IANS
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Jammu:
A 39-member all-party delegation Wednesday concluded its three-day
visit to Jammu and Kashmir and flew back to New Delhi in a special
plane from here, an official source said.
The team led by union Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived in
Jammu Tuesday after spending one and a half days in Srinagar.
The delegation, which visited the state to get a sense of the
ground situation before deciding on steps to defuse tensions, met
a cross section of people here, including political groups and
Kashmiri Hindu migrants and traders.
Besides Chidambaram, the delegation included Parliamentary Affairs
Minister P.K. Bansal (Congress) as well as Arun Jaitley and Sushma
Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The delegation’s visit was necessitated by an unending cycle of
stone throwing, clashes and killings. More than 100 people have
been killed in the clashes since June 11.
Chidambaram’s predecessor Shivraj Patil had led such a delegation
during the Amarnath land row in August 2008, and former deputy
prime minister Devi Lal in March 1990.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was a member of the first
all-party delegation in 1990, when the militancy had started
rattling the Kashmir Valley and the people were frenzied about
“azadi” sentiment and the gunmen were hailed as “liberators”.
A meeting of Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) Sep 13 had
decided to send the delegation to the state to assess the
situation and suggest measures to find a way out to end the
deadlock.
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