New Delhi : Former union minister Yashwant Sinha has clarified that a 5-member team headed to Srinagar in search of solution to the past three months of turmoil in the Kashmir valley is purely a private initiative of individuals and should not be seen as a Track-II mission. If at all there is any mission in their effort, it is a “listening mission” to give an ear to the separatist leaders and other concerned citizens on how the situation can be handled with a new perspective, a team member said, pointing out that “we are not raising any questions but only listening to understand what they want.”
[alert type=”e.g. warning, danger, success, info” title=””] A 5-member delegation led By BJP’s Yashwant Sinha gathered that alienation in the valley is on the rise; the separatist leaders and also every Kashmiri they met repeatedly claimed that “there is nobody to listen.”[/alert]
An impression was gathered by the team that alienation in the valley is on the rise; the separatist leaders and also every Kashmiri they met repeatedly claimed that “there is nobody to listen.” Every separatist leader they approached readily agreed to meet as there is someone from Delhi to listen to them and take a sympathetic view on the ground realities. The team’s 3-day visit that will end on Thursday has nothing to do with the Centre or the J&K government nor was it any initiative of his Bhartiya Janata Party, Sinha said.
A team member said they met in Delhi and felt they should travel together to understand the situation first hand. He said the team was told how 6,000 students are locked up in jails, blanking out their future as they cannot go to schools.
