Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Government today said that it will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders irrespective of their ideological views and predilections.
“The coalition government will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders irrespective of their ideological views and predilections.
“The commitment was made with an aim of building a broad based consensus on the resolution of all outstanding issues of J&K,” Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said in a written reply to a question from Congress member Usman Majid in Legislative Assembly.
The chief minister, who also holds the Home portfolio, said that the coalition government will continue with its efforts of taking confidence building measures.
In his question, Majid had asked whether it was a fact that in Agenda of Alliance it had promised to initiate dialogue process with separatists and Pakistan, if so what is the present status of the commitment.
In the reply the chief minister said, “The Agenda of Alliance between J&K PDP and BJP, which lays down a guiding framework for the governance, provides that the coalition government will seek to support and strengthen the approach and initiatives taken by the government of India to create a reconciliatory environment and build stakes for all in the peace and development within the sub-continent.”
She said that the steps taken so far including taking confidence building measures such as enhancing people-to-people contact on both sides of the Line of Control, encouraging civil society exchanges, taking travel, commerce, trade and business across the LoC to the next level and opening new routes across all three regions to enhance connectivity.
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