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| Omar meets PM on Autonomy | | Justice Sageer’s report takes circuitous route to PMO | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: As Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today had a 40-minute long meeting with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the union capital discussing the Jammu and Kashmir peace process and development issues, the report of Working Group on Center-State relations headed by Justice Sageer Ahmed took a full circuitous route.
On his way to Srinagar from London, the Chief Minister today met the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and handed over to him report of PM’s fifth Working Group which recommends, among other things, restoration of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir ‘to the possible extent’. Both leaders are reported to have discussed broad contours of the report and its implementation process, sources said.
It may be mentioned here that four of the five Working Groups constituted by the Prime Minister at second roundtable conference in Srinagar in May 2006 had submitted their report to the Prime Minister during meeting of third and last roundtable conference in New Delhi in April 2007. The fifth Working Group headed by Justice Sageer Ahmed could not convene more than two meetings and the last meeting was held around 27 months back.
Seen in political circles as a bolt out of blue, the Secretary to the Working Group headed by Justice Ahmed recently submitted the report to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah instead of handing it over to the Prime Minister. The report today took a circuitous route, as the Chief Minister today handed it over to the Prime Minister and discussed the possible mechanism for implementation.
Sources say that the Chief Minister apprised Dr Manmohan Singh of the salient features of the report. The report said a call needed to be taken on how long Article 370 of the Constitution in its present form, granting Special status for Jammu and Kashmir, should continue to remain in force.
The Working Group deliberated on matters relating to the special status of the border state within the Indian Union, methods of strengthening democracy, secularism and the rule of law in the state.
The question of 'Autonomy', a political manifesto of the National Conference, and its demand can be examined in the light of the (1975) 'Kashmir Accord' or in some other manner or on the basis of some other formula as the present Prime Minister may deem fit and appropriate so as to restore the 'Autonomy' to the extent possible, it said. |
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