PM's meeting with J-K leaders begins
June 24, 2021 15:32
PM Narendra Modi's meeting with J-K leaders begins.
Modi has called an all-party meeting of J&K's political parties. Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Tara Chand have already reached the PM's home. This is the PM's first outreach towards parties that have denounced what is possibly his biggest political decision -- Jammu and Kashmir losing its special status and being made into two Union Territories.
Four former J&K Chief Ministers are among the 14 leaders invited to the meeting. Three of them, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, his son Omar Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, were jailed for six months to one year from August 5, 2019, when the changes were enforced.
The fourth former CM is of course, Ghulam Nabi Azad.
With no agenda announced for the meeting, the leaders from Jammu and Kashmir said they have come with an open mind.
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