Srinagar:<\/b><\/i> The BJP feels Syed Ali Geelani, the veteran separatist leader, is looking for \u201cways and approach for dialogue.\u201d The party literally accused Geelani of lying when he had said yesterday that an Intelligence Bureau official had approached him to begin a round of political talks with New Delhi.<\/i>
\n\u201cI do not think that it is correct,\u201d said Ashok Kaul, the BJP general secretary (Organizations). He said Geelani should engage with Dineshwar Sharma, the interlocutor appointed by the Indian government, as such issues are \u201cpolitical and can\u2019t be discussed at any other level\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
On Thursday night, Geelani was quoted by his spokesperson as saying that he had declined the offer of talks made by an IB official to him. \u201cGeelaniSahab declined the offer, saying that until the Kashmir dispute is addressed in its historical perspective and India acknowledges the disputed status of the Kashmir and starts demilitarization to hold a referendum, holding any talks carries no meaning.\u201d Geelani said the offer was nothing more than a tactic to buy time by New Delhi. <\/i>
\nSunil Sethi, the party\u2019s chief spokesperson, said that the offer of dialogue is made at political level and not on official level. \u201cIt is prerogative of political leadership to offer dialogue to someone,\u201d he said. \u201cI doubt the claim by Geelani.\u201d<\/i>
\nSethi said that there is no question that talks with anybody will be held outside the Constitution of India. \u201cWe are saying it today and it is the stand of every government that there is not any possibility of talks outside Indian Constitution,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar: The BJP feels Syed Ali Geelani, the veteran separatist leader, is looking for \u201cways and approach for dialogue.\u201d The party literally accused Geelani of lying when he had said yesterday that an Intelligence Bureau official had approached him to begin a round of political talks with New Delhi. \u201cI do not think that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}