Committed to restoring J&K statehood, says PM Modi at all-party meet

Farooq Abdullah overtly flagged a return to the pre-5 August 2019 status of J&K when Article 370 was written down. In an emotional speech he spoke about the loss of trust

Pledging to bridge the distance between ‘dil’ (heart) of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and Dilli (dil aur Dilli ki doori), Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi made an emotional closing speech to 14 leaders of parties in J&K. He promised that Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s approach of  insaniyat (humaneness), jamhooriyat (democracy) and Kashmiriyat (the Kashmiri identity) would be the guiding principles in the governance and administration of the Union Territory (UT).

The meeting lasted three and a half hours and the PM heard everyone before committing himself to some assurances: that the next steps in the region would be on the basis of