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8 top political leaders meet LG, lists 15 major demands including Statehood
Posted 08 Jan 2020 01:21 PM

DAILY EXCELSIOR

JAMMU, Jan 7: In first major political activity in Kashmir post August 5 abrogation of special Constitutional provisions of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the State into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh, eight former legislators including three ex-Ministers today met Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu at Raj Bhawan here this afternoon and submitted him a memorandum listing their demands which included restoration of Statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, safeguarding rights of the people over land and jobs, release of detainees, withdrawal of cases against youth etc.
The delegation comprised Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, former Finance Minister, Ghulam Hassan Mir and Mohammad Dillawar Mir, also both former Ministers, Zaffar Iqbal, former MLC, Javed Hassan Beig, Noor Mohammad Sheikh, Choudhary Qamar Hussain and Raja Manzoor Ahmed, all former MLAs.
Qamar was former MLA from Poonch and belonged to Jammu region while rest seven leaders hailed from the Kashmir Valley.
Significantly, seven of them were directly affiliated with the PDP presently while Ghulam Hassan Mir was part of the PDP till 2008 when he parted ways with the party and floated his own political party—Democratic Party Nationalist (DPN).
While the PDP had split even before August 5 after fall of the PDP-BJP Government in June 2018 with many party leaders revolting against party president Mehbooba Mufti, the meeting of seven prominent PDP leaders with the Lieutenant Governor and coming up with new demands is being seen by the political observers as another major split in the PDP especially at a time when Mehbooba has been detained by the Government for past over five months.

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