The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a union of five regional political parties of Jammu and Kashmir, will make a decision on the government’s offer for talks in its meeting which will be held in Srinagar today.
“The only agenda of the meeting is not whether we should go ahead with talks or not but we will exchange our views. The approach which we should adopt will be discussed,” PAGD spokesperson, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami told reporters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited as many as 14 leaders from J&K, including four former Chief Ministers of the state for a meeting in New Delhi which will be held on June 24. Sources said that the meeting will decide whether to attend the meeting in an individual capacity as a representative of a political party or send two representatives on behalf of the PAGD group.

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Dr Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference has called the government’s move a “good change” describing it as a realization at the Centre that it cannot move forward in J&K without the mainstream political parties. “There are many harsh ground realities that the Prime Minister should be aware of. We feel that we must express and inform the PM of our pain and suffering. We believe that as political workers we are duty-bound to facilitate movement towards restoration of democracy and empowerment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” PC spokesperson Adnan Ashraf Mir said in a statement.