15-member delegation of NC leaders will go to Srinagar, says NC leader Devendra Rana
The National Conference delegation from Jammu province has been granted permission by the Jammu and Kashmir administration to meet party president Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah on Sunday.
National Conference (NC) leader Devender Rana in Jammu said: "Today, we've got the confirmation that a delegation will be allowed to meet Farooq Abdullah & Omar Abdullah. A 15-member delegation of NC leaders, all of them former legislators, are going to Srinagar tomorrow morning."
Rana had sought permission from Governor Satya Pal Malik for the visit.
Eighty-one-year-old Farooq Abdullah is under house arrest at his Srinagar residence while his son Omar is detained at a state guest house.
Party spokesperson Madan Mantoo said that "the delegation comprising former party legislators will leave by Indigo flight from Jammu on Sunday morning".
Mantoo also said that they were anguished over the continued detention of senior leaders as also the other top leaders of the mainstream political parties.
He has said the decision to meet the Abdullahs was taken at a meeting of senior functionaries and district presidents of the Jammu Province two days ago after restrictions on the movement of Jammu-based National Conference leaders were lifted. He also said that they want the political dialogue to begin in the Valley in a peaceful manner.
The government has also detained most of the political leadership of Kashmir, including Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti and Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference chairman Sajjad Lone.
