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Plebiscite to UT status for Leh: String of demands made to all-party team

The all-party delegation was also told that the relief for 2014 floods had not been distributed properly since some received Rs 3,000, others Rs 5 lakh and still others no money at all.

Written by: Sagnik Chowdhury
3 min readNew DelhiSep 8, 2016 05:44 AM IST First published on: Sep 8, 2016 at 05:12 AM IST
kashmir unrest, kashmir issue, kashmiri demands, union territory status, ut status for leh, kashmir all party meet, all party delegation, J&K assembly, separatists, discussion with separatists, UT status to leh, hurriyat, separatists, action against separatists, kashmir security, security of kashmir, rajnath singh, kashmir debate, kashmir all party talk, indian express news, kashmir news, all party meet updates, india  news (From left) AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge, JD(U)’s Sharad Yadav, CPI’s D Raja, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar, after a meeting in New Delhi, Wednesday, of the all-party team that visited J&K.

From holding a plebiscite to decide the fate of Kashmiris to implementation of an autonomy resolution passed in 2000 by the J&K assembly, from discussions with separatists and Pakistan to fast-tracking delimitation of constituencies, from UT status for Leh to a permanent camp secretariat in Jammu.

These and other demands, made by political parties and organisations in memorandums during their meetings with the all-party delegation that visited Srinagar and Jammu on September 4-5, find mention in a Home Ministry ‘summary of issues raised’ for the follow-up meeting of the all-party delegation which was held Wednesday at Parliament House.

Delegations that met the all-party team flagged their concerns:

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