There is a proposal within opposition ranks that leading non-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) chief ministers should issue a joint letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express their common concerns on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, commit their support to the Centre on the issue but also implore upon it the need to engage in a dialogue with all stakeholders in the state.
Some in the opposition ranks have suggested that chief ministers Naveen Patnaik, Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, Amarinder Singh, Pinarayi Vijayan and others should write a common letter to the PM. This would also signal