SUCI demands all party meet to defuse Kasmir situation

Kolkata, Aug 16 (UNI) Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) has said the controversy centering round the Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to transfer forest land to Amarnath Shrine Board, which triggered violence in Kashmir must be resolved through discussion amongst all political parties.

SUCI general secretary Nihar Mukherjee said the Centre must concentrate all its efforts to facilitate a negotiated settlement of the ''burning issue''.

The present crisis in Jammu and Kashmir could not be correctly viewed delinking it from the unresolved Kashmir problem.

''Until and unless fear of the Kashmiri people of losing their autonomy, identity and being dispossessed of their rights and land is removed once for all, danger of outbreak of such conflagration will always be there,'' he observed.

He also urged the Government to abjure the path of ''political and military suppression'' of Kashmiri people.

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