The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) yesterday announced that a team headed by Dr. Farooq Abdullah and comprising PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti and Amalgam’s spokesperson Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami will attend the All Party Meeting called by Prime Minister Nadrendra Modi in New Delhi tomorrow.
Dr. Abdullah, who heads the amalgam, met the media in Sri Nagar after the meeting of the PAGD leaders at his residence. He said that they have received invitation from Prime Minister and they are going to attend the meeting.
Dr. Farooq, Chief of National Conference NC and Member of Parliament from Srinagar, said they are confident that they will put their stand before Prime Minister and Home Minister.
The PAGD is an alliance of six parties in Jammu and Kashmir, including the NC and the PDP, formed in the aftermath of the GoIs August 2019 decision to nullify Article 370 and split J&K into two union territories. The group’s public stand is for the restoration of the special status of the ‘state’ of J&K.