By Nasir Khuehami
Bandipora: Amid tight Security, the government of India’s special representative for a dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma met around 16 delegations in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday.
This is the sixth visit of Dineshwar Sharma to Kashmir since he was appointed as Special Representative for a Dialogue october last year.
During his visit to Bandipora, he met around 16 delegations including social activists, politicians and the people from different walks of life who called him at Bandipora. Sharma is on two day visit here at Bandipora.
The delegations of political parties that met the interlocutor include People’s Democratic Party and Congress. However, the major opposition party National Conference boycotted to meet introluctor and stayed away.
Traders Federation Bandipora also boycotted and stayed away from meeting Sharma, a trade leaderon the conditions of anonymity, said that meeting Sharma was a “futile exercise. In the past, such interlocutors were appointed, but where are the Reports of those interlocutors which gather dust’.
Media persons, including journalists and photo-journalists representing different media outlets were stopped from covering the visit.
Earlier Work was suspended on 330 MW Kishen Ganga Hydro Electric Power Project (KGHEPP) at Mantrigam following protest demonstration held by workers outside NHPC office where they were not allowed by security guards to enter the gate. They alleged that Security guards deployed on gate beaten us ruthlessly.