All-party team should have qualitatively different response: Kashmir Congress

Asking the all-party team to reach out to the civil society, Jammu and Kashmir Congress Committee today said the delegation should cross the line with a qualitatively different response to the prevailing situation in the state.

"We told the delegation that the response has to be qualitatively different. They will have to cross the line and reach out to the civil society in Kashmir," JKPCC president Saifuddin Soz told reporters here after meeting the delegation.

He said the Congress impressed upon the delegation that civil liberties of people in the state should be restored in full measure and with dignity.

Asserting dialogue was the only way forward, he said the Congress will vigourously facilitate such a process for arriving at a consensus among the three regions of the state. 

"Integrity of the state is very important as any move against it will be detrimental to all the people of India," Soz said, apparently referring to demands in some quarters for trifurcation of the state.

He said the present crisis had thrown up an opportunity for the national polity which has come here in the form of a delegation and the political parties in the state for resolving the issue.