BJP Calls Meeting To Chalk Out "Counter-Strategy" Against Gupkar Alliance

The PM's meeting with the political parties from Jammu and Kashmir is part of the Centre's initiatives to bolster political processes, including holding assembly elections, in the union territory.

Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Monday said he is meeting senior party leaders in Jammu to chalk out a "counter-strategy" against Gupkar Alliance ahead of the all-party meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on June 24. Mr Raina along with two senior party leaders -- former deputy chief ministers Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta -- are taking part in the scheduled meeting which will be the prime minister's first interaction with all the political parties of Jammu and Kashmir since August 5, 2019 when the Central government abrogated the state's special status and bifurcated it into UTs. The PM's meeting with the political parties from Jammu and Kashmir is part of the Centre's initiatives to bolster political processes, including holding assembly elections, in the union territory. "We have convened an emergency meeting of all prominent party leaders at Trikuta Nagar party headquarters at 11 am tomorrow (Tuesday) to chalk out the counter-strategy against Gupkar Alliance (People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration PAGD which is meeting in Srinagar around the same time to discuss Centre's invitation)," Mr Raina told PTI.