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| Yashwant Sinha in town, Govt to allow joint meeting of Hurriyat | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 11: With veteran Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and former Union minister, Yashwant Sinha having arrived here on a 4-day visit of Kashmir, the government is likely to allow the "united" Hurriyat leadership to hold a joint meeting in a day or two.
Official sources said the Hurriyat leadership has requested to the government that they be allowed to hold a joint meeting ahead of their interaction with the visiting delegates.
Sources said the government has agreed to meet demand of the Huriyat leaders "provided they soften the ongoing protest calendar that is issued on weekly basis."
A top official told Early Times the meeting would be held at the Hyderpora residence of Hurriyat (G) leader Syed Ali Geelani while his Hurriyat (M) counterpart Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik will be allowed to proceed to the venue.
Sources said the separatists have also sought "additional deployment" of police force at the venue lest they face any public outcry.
Sources said the separatists have told the government that unlike the joint meeting held on November 8, when miscreants were allowed to assemble outside Geelani's residence this "time the police must ensure at the no such activity takes place outside the residence of the Hurriyat leader that compels them to change their mind."
Though last time the Hurriyat conference had called a meeting to call off the strike, the protests outside the residence of Syed Ali Geelani forced them to continue with the agitation. Yasin Malik had told reporters that protests outside forced them not to call off the strike.
Geelani is already under pressure that if he extends agitation, his sons and son-in-laws may be booked under cases of hawala transactions.
Yasin Malik and Mirwaiz have also agreed to meet the demands of the Sinha led delegation if "individual interests of the Hurriyat leaders are kept safe."
Sources said the Hurriyat leaders are apprehensive that they are losing importance in the eyes of the Sinha led team as their protest programs are losing grip.
"Now before the day people open shops in Lal Chowk in defiance of the Hurriyat calendar its leaders want to call off the strike to give a feel to the government that it was because of separatists that normalcy was restored. This will have two benefits, their image in the eyes of Track II team will be saved and Hurriayt will seek incentives for having called of the strike," said a source. |
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