The moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference and JKLF on Monday decided to keep away from the second Kashmir round table conference.
SRINAGAR: The moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference on Monday rejected invitation to attend the second roundtable conference convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to be held here on May 24-25. But its leaders said that they were willing to meet him on the sidelines of the meet.
"It was unanimously decided not to attend the roundtable conference," Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said after a joint meeting of the amalgam's executive committee, general council and working committee.
"Hurriyat Conference considers that a crowd comprising of political hypocrites and Ikhwanis (counter-insurgents) with no agenda can hardly produce a result for permanent resolution of Kashmir problem which the people in entire South Asian region desperately long for," Mirwaiz said reading out from a prepared statement.
The Hurriyat Chairman, however, said the amalgam leaders were willing to meet the Prime Minister separately during his two-day visit to Kashmir.
"Hurriyat Conference chooses to seize the opportunity of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Kashmir to take forward the process already in place and if he pleases to agree, the leaders will be talking to him in Srinagar as well," he said. He added that the amalgam would proceed with its policy of continuing the dialogue process with India and Pakistan.
Hurriyat was a relevant forum and represented the sentiments of people of Jammu and Kashmir as well as the dynamics of the change, he said.
The amalgam had not attended the first roundtable conference convened by the Prime Minister in February in New Delhi.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik said that he had already decided not to participate in the round-table conference.
Malik said he had rejected the invitation to attend the first round-table in New Delhi on February 25.
"There is no change in my stand," he added.
However, the JKLF Chief declined to comment on receiving the fresh invitation to attend the second round-table conference to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on May 24-25.
Malik had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh separately in New Delhi on February 17.
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