Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Sharad Yadav and Jay Prakash Narayan will meet Hurriyat leaders in individual capacity.
Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Sharad Yadav and Jay Prakash Narayan will meet Hurriyat leaders in individual capacity.
Srinagar: Four opposition MPs of all-party delegation on Sunday broke away from the group and decided to reach out to separatists by meeting them separately.
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D Raja, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav and RJD's Jay Prakash Narayan left the venue where the all-party delegation headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh was meeting various groups and individuals and proceeded to meet hardline Hurriyat leader Seyd Ali Shah Geelani at his residence where he is under house arrest.
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The MPs are also likely to meet another Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq who is in Chashme Shahi sub-jail and JKLF chief Yaseen Malik and JK Democratic Liberation Front leader Shabir Shah, who are under detention at BSF camp in Humama.
They will also meet former Hurriyat chief Abdul Ghani Bhat.
They will be meeting Hurriyat leaders in individual capacity as an effort to reach out to separatists.
Separatists have shunned the offer of coming to discussion table.
A day after Mehbooba invited separatists in her capacity as PDP chief, separatist leaders Geelani, the Mirwaiz and Malik had issued a joint statement here, rubbishing her offer.
-"These deceitful methods of crisis management through Parliamentary delegations and Track-Two only prolong the sufferings of the people and can't take the place of a genuine transparent agenda-based dialogue to address the core issue of the peoples' right to self-determination in J-K.
An all-party delegation led by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday held talks with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Srinagar, as it began a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, during which it is expected to interact with a cross-section of people with a view to restore peace in the strife-hit Valley.
The meeting, chaired by Singh at Sher-I-Kashmir International Conference Centre soon after the 26-member delegation arrived in Srinagar, discussed the security situation in the Valley.
The Hurriyat Conference however, rejected the invitation for talks, saying the delegation 'has not spelt out its mandate and has no clear agenda of engagement.'
Read: J&K unrest: Separatists reject all-party dialogue, call it devoid of clear agenda CM Mehbooba Mufti had written a letter to separatists leaders in her capacity as PDP Chief inviting them to engage with the delegation.
But the state government has placed chairman of moderate Hurriyat Conference faction Mirwaiz Umer Farooq under arrest at Chashme Shahi sub-jail, JKLF Chief Yaseen Malik at BSF camp in Humama while hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani continues to be under house arrest. This led to a jibe from former CM Omar Abdullah about the absurdity of calling Hurriyat for talks when its leaders were in jail.
However, cutting across party lines, leaders earlier said that they were hopeful of finding a solution for restoration of peace in the Valley which has been in the grip of violent protests that left 73 persons dead and thousands injured.
