All party meet at PM Modi’s residence underway, 14 leaders of 8 parties present

New Delhi: Jammu & Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha arrived at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, Prime Minister’s official residence. PM Narendra Modi has called an all-party meeting of J&K’s political parties.

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# Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Tara Chand have already reached the PM’s home.

Delhi: Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Tara Chand arrive at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg – Prime Minister’s official residence – for the all-party meeting of J&K’s political parties called by PM Narendra Modi. pic.twitter.com/wzOHB5uPpO

— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2021

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.

I am going to the meeting. I will keep the demands there and then I will talk to you. Mehbooba Mufti is the president of her party, why should I speak on what she said: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, ahead of the all-party meeting called by PM Narendra Modi today pic.twitter.com/kNW1pR3GM7

— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2021

# 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.