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Centre may rope in Geelani for talks
PM met Yasin Malik last month and could meet Sajjad Lone, who has kept away from the talks.
NEW DELHI: The decision to allow Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani to got to Mecca to perform the Haj is part of a larger plan to rope him into the dialogue process at a later stage, if not in the second round of talks that PM Manmohan Singh is likely to hold early next month.
Well placed sources in the government say the PM met Yasin Malik last month and could meet Sajjad Lone, among the younger hardliners who has kept away from the talks, before the next round begins.
Although the previous dispensation under Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had been highly supportive of the dialogue, installation of the Congress-led government in J&K has strengthened the Centre's hand.
Official sources say that while the new CM Ghulam Nabi Azad would be in the picture, he is not expected to be present during the talks.
"It would help not to involve him in direct talks and let him stabilise in his new job. Expectations are high since Azad is seen as a person with long years of experience at the national level, who must belong to all the regions of the state," he told TOI.
Dubbed an "outsider" by detractors, Azad is being given time to deliver. "If he wins wider acceptance, the Centre would be able to make a move vis-a-vis the return of the Kashmiri Pandits," said lawyer-Congressman Ashok Bhan.
Well placed sources in the government say the PM met Yasin Malik last month and could meet Sajjad Lone, among the younger hardliners who has kept away from the talks, before the next round begins.
Although the previous dispensation under Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had been highly supportive of the dialogue, installation of the Congress-led government in J&K has strengthened the Centre's hand.
Official sources say that while the new CM Ghulam Nabi Azad would be in the picture, he is not expected to be present during the talks.
"His support would be in the form of improving the administration and giving the state a good government," was how a source concerned with J&K affairs put it.
"It would help not to involve him in direct talks and let him stabilise in his new job. Expectations are high since Azad is seen as a person with long years of experience at the national level, who must belong to all the regions of the state," he told TOI.
Dubbed an "outsider" by detractors, Azad is being given time to deliver. "If he wins wider acceptance, the Centre would be able to make a move vis-a-vis the return of the Kashmiri Pandits," said lawyer-Congressman Ashok Bhan.
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