PROLOGUE
Months ago, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti, referring people's perception on the Kashmir issue, had said that Modi may take "certain tough decisions... maybe positive ones." Mufti was speaking at the 'Idea Exchange' programme of English daily The Indian Express.On Friday, hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani claimed that Narendra Modi, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, had sent emissaries to him seeking help to resolve the Kashmir issue. Talking to reporters Geelani said that he had rejected the prelude.
Responding to the issue BJP termed the claim as false and mischievous. BJP has categorically denied Geelani’s claim that Narendra Modi sent emissaries to meet him to resolve the Kashmir issue.
CENTRELOGUE
“On March 22, two men came to meet me. They were our Pandit brothers, who sought my help in resolving the Kashmir dispute,” Geelani said but did not identify the men. He claimed the men asked him if he wished to talk to Modi.”
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“They conveyed to me that if I am ready to offer any assistance… I can contact Narendra Modi directly and seek some commitment vis-à-vis the Kashmir issue.”
- Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Chairman, Hurriyat Conference
EPILOGUE
After the claim and counter claim in form of denial the politics has begun. And, the Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has put a valid point. Obviously the question of who is true and who is lying echoes in the political arena. Especially in this season when the general election is in full swing. Now the political wrestling has taken a new turn, in which the plinth of the another political war is to begin any time.
So who is lying SAS Geelani or the NaMo campaign? Easy way to find out - let SASG identify the emissaries who met him on behalf of NaMo.
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) April 19, 2014
