New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said that the government’s decision to send an all-party delegation to Kashmir has come 40 days too late, and added that matters would not have come to such a pass if the decision had been taken earlier. “We have made this demand on July 18. It’s been 40 days now. Perhaps things would not have come to such a pass if the government had taken this decision earlier,” Azad told IANS. Nevertheless, Azad, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, welcomed the move. “It is good that the government finally accepted our demand (to send an all-party delegation to Kashmir). It will definitely help defuse the situation,” he said.