Mehbooba says PM intends to talk to all Kashmir stakeholders

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba MuftiJammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi intended to hold talks in a conducive atmosphere with all stakeholders to bring order to the troubled state as she invoked former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayees policy saying talks were the only way to move forwardMehbooba Mufti met Modi here to review the worsening security situation as speculations gained momentum about the possibility of Governors Rule in the state amid allegations that the PDPBJP coalition government has failed to control law and order in the Kashmir ValleyWe had talks during Vajpayee regime We need to move forward from where Atalji had left Till then there is no chance of improvement in the situation Mufti said responding to reporters over possibility of talks with Hurriyat leaders We need a dialogue We cant be confronting our own people for too long We cannot hold talks when from one side stones are being thrown and bullets are fired from the other she addedThe Chief Minister added that Modi has vowed to work on the lines of Vajpayee whose policy was of reconciliation and not of confrontation Modiji has an intention of holding talks but before that a conducive atmosphere needs to be created she told reporters after the meeting the Prime Minister at his 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residenceEverything is possible if atmosphere is conducive and there is no way forward without talks she said The Peoples Democratic Party chief said that after Vajpayees initiatives the SrinagarMuzaffarabad road was reopened talks began with the Hurriyat and the ceasefire on the Line of Control came into force Something happened while Atalji was there That is the reason the people of Kashmir still remember Atalji Due to this policy there is an alliance between BJP and PDPWe held discussions on various issuesthe agenda of alliance between the PDPBJP she said On possibility of Governers rule in the state Mufti said That is for the central government to decide She dubbed the recent rift in alliance as bad and said this should not have happened The PDP stood by its dharma but its an internal matter and we will resolve it through talks she saidMufti said her father the late Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had given a road map for lasting peace in the state Mufti said she stressed on the Prime Minister to compensate people of the state for the losses they have suffered due to the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan She said she was confident of finding a solution to the festering trouble in the Kashmir ValleyWe have a Unified Command meeting tomorrow Tuesday There are twothree kinds of people who are involved in stone pelting Some are disillusioned and some are incited the Chief Minister said when asked about how she would control the use of the social media that are inciting youths to pelt stones We will find a line of action she said Meanwhile the Bharatiya Janata Party also denied any rift in the coalition and assured the Mehbooba Muftiled government of its continued supportThere is no rift in the BJPPDP alliance BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav told reporters Madhav is in charge of the BJP affairs in Jammu and Kashmir We have extended all support to the state he said According to him the partys main concern is to bring normalcy in the Kashmir Valley within onetwo monthsHe said there was an issue regarding elections to the legislative council We have noticed a lack of communication on the issue and will address it On the other hand senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said peace wont be restored in the violencehit state till the PDPBJP government is in powerPeace wont be restored in Jammu and Kashmir as long as the coalition government is in power in the state However Governors Rule is not the solution to the problem The government should bring change in its approach Azad told reporters Mehbooba Mufti later met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed the security situation in the state