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Hosts parallel media briefing during Azad's Kashmir visit | Senior Congress leader leaves party red-faced | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 31: Putting the opposition Congress to embarrassment, a senior party leader from Kashmir held a parallel briefing with media, when former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad was on a day long visit to the Valley. Taking out time from his busy schedule for electioneering for Congress in north India, Azad on August 30, was on a whirlwind visit to Kashmir and spoke to media to express the party concern over the situation in Kashmir. But another senior Congress leader, finding Azad grabbing spotlight fixed a parallel briefing with the media persons at a local hotel here. Sources said this senior leader was unnerved by attention which Azad has been grabbing as leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and for his vision for end to violence in Kashmir. Sources said the leader, who has remained a Union Minister in the past, was worried that no one was seeking his viewpoint over the Kashmir issue during the past 52 days of unrest in Kashmir. Finally finding Azad in the Valley, this colleague delivered a press conference wherein he called for resolution to "Kashmir issue in accordance with the 1952 positions and former Pakistan President Parvaiz Musharaf's four point formula." While the Congress in general has been seeking solution to Kashmir as being integral part of India, this leader has supported the Pakistani viewpoint on the dispute. It was reliably learnt that the Congress leader wants to be taken into confidence during the scheduled visit of the all party delegation to Kashmir on September 4. After the 2014 Assembly poll debacle, when this leader had fielded his favorites including a woman from a constituency in Srinagar, he was often distanced by the party high command in decision making and consultations. The leader was equally accused of trying to bring family politics by fielding his son into politics though the later has rarely lived in the Valley but prefers to stay abroad. "Now finding his boat sinking, this leader is resorting to parallel politics to be in news even if it means to endorse the formula as given by Pakistan," said a source privy to the developments. On Tuesday there were two voices from the same party, speaking two different things to the media. On one side it was Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad saying there has been a lot of "patchwork" on Kashmir and it is high time for New Delhi to initiate a dialogue with "all stakeholders for finding a lasting solution" to the issue. Azad, who had initiated a debate in the Rajya Sabha on Kashmir issue on July 18, said it was perhaps for the "first time in history that the Indian Parliament debated Kashmir four times." "Congress initiated the discussion on Kashmir while other opposition leaders extended full support to it," he said. "We suggested to the Government of India to hold an all-party meet and send an all-party delegation to Kashmir." But on the other hand his party colleague spoke a different tone. Former J&K Congress chief offered a political solution to the "vexed Kashmir issue" by advocating "merger" of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's four-point formula with the 1952 Delhi agreement. Addressing a press conference, he said the ongoing uprising in Kashmir that has already left 70 civilians dead and over 7500 injured "prompted me to unveil this possible solution" to the Kashmir issue. "I believe reviving the Delhi agreement of 1952 within the framework of what was known at one point of time Musharraf's four-point formula is the possible solution to Kashmir issue," Soz said. "In simple words, Delhi agreement can be incorporated in the Musharraf's four-point formula for finding a dignified solution to the problem." |
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