Forms committee to seek opinion of people for future course of action
Srinagar, Jan 29: Altaf Bukhari led group today formed two separate committees for meeting with Prime Minister, Home Minister with a memorandum which they had earlier submitted to Lieutenant Governor and the mandate of the second committee will be to meet people, intellectuals and public representatives across the board for deciding the future course of action.
A top leader who was part of the meeting said that the meeting under the chairmanship of former MLA Muhammad Altaf Bukhari started at 12 Pm and ended at 4 PM at the residence of Ghulam Hassan Mir in Bathandi Jammu.
Those who attended the meeting include Muhammad Altaf Bukhari, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Dilwara Mir, Usman Majeed, Javed Beigh, Shoaib lone, Abdul Rahim Rather( PDP), Abdul Majeed Paddar, Noor Muhammad, Hilal Shah, Asghar Ali (ex MLC) Yawar Mir, Showket Ahmed Gayoor, Javid Mir (civil society member), Dr Samiullh, Raja Manzoor, Muntazir Mohiudin and Javed Mirchal.
Notably, this is the second time group members had a meeting regarding the future course of action viz viz present situation.
Taking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Democratic Political Nationalist chief Ghulam Hassan Mir said, “We discussed the progress of our memorandum submitted to LG threadbare. We had demanded release of all prisoners. Some prisoners were released but our demand was all of them should be released. We also demanded restoration of internet services, it was restored partially. We had also demanded some policy measures for relief of businessmen community, regulation of airfares for boosting tourism,” he told.
He added that our main demand was restoration of statehood and protection of land and jobs for locals. But nothing was heard from people at the helm of affairs,” he said.
Mir informed the news agency that all members decided that they should approach Prime Minister and Home Minister with the memorandum.
The meeting also decided that a committee will meet cross section of people including politicians, civil society members, intellectuals to seek their opinion, advice for deciding future course of the group which is in the interests of people of J&K.
