J&K Parties In A Huddle After Being Invited To PM's All-Party Meet

The deliberations came ahead of a joint meeting of People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to be held on Tuesday to discuss their stand on the Centre's invite.A

Hectic political consultations were on in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday within mainstream regional parties including the National Conference (NC) and the PDP over an all-party meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24, while the Congress raised the pitch for immediate restoration of statehood to J-K. The deliberations came ahead of a joint meeting of People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of six political parties including the NC, PDP, CPM, Awami National Conference, CPI and JK People's Movement, to be held on Tuesday to discuss their stand on the Centre's invite. As the day began, a two-hour-long political affairs committee meeting of Mehbooba Mufti's PDP was held. "The party unanimously authorised the party president to take a final decision on the matter," PDP chief spokesperson Syed Suhail Bukhari told reporters outside Mufti's residence after the meeting.