No compromise of Special status of J&K:- PAGD

SRINAGAR, June 22, 2021: The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Tuesday announced that a the team headed by Farooq Abdullah and comprising PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti and amalgam’s spokesperson Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami will attend an All-Party meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June 24.

 “We have received an invitation from Prime Minister and we are going to attend,” Farooq Abdullah, who heads the amalgam, told reporters here after the meeting of the PAGD leaders at his residence.

“We are confident that we will put our stand before Prime Minister and Home Minister,” Farooq, the member Parliament from Srinagar said.

“When the meeting will end, we will brief you on what have done there, what we said, and what was the response,” he said.

The PAGD is an alliance of six parties in Jammu and Kashmir, including the NC and the PDP, formed in the the aftermath of the Goi’s August 2019 decision to nullify Article 370 and split J&K into two union territories.

The group’s public stand is for the restoration of the special status of the ‘state’ of J&K.

To a question about those representing the PAGD at the meeting, Farooq said that he himself, Mehbooba Mufti and M Y Tarigami will be attending the meeting.

Tarigami, the spokesman of the PAGD, said that there should be no “mistaken belief that we are going to sign on the agenda set by them. We are going to see what the proposal is. If it is in the interest of people, we say yes and if otherwise there is going be big no.”

PAGD member Muzaffar Shah also announced that there shall be no compromise on Article 370 and Article 35A which was annulled by the ruling dispensation at New Delhi on 5 August 2019 while imposing security and communication clampdown in entire J&K and detaining or arresting thousands of people including the mainstream leaders. (PTK)