Mehbooba Mufti meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi

Arnima Dwivedi
Published on: 26 Oct 2017 9:27 AM GMT
Mehbooba Mufti meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi
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New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh met Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti here on Thursday, days after the Centre named former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma as its interlocutor for talks in the troubled state.

"The meeting began at around 1100 hours and went on for an hour and a half," a Home Ministry official said. The two leaders met at the Home Minister's office in North block.

The Chief Minister arrived here in the morning along with a team of state government officers, including Chief Secretary BB Vyas.

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It was Mehbooba Mufti's first meeting with Rajnath Singh after the government on Tuesday said Sharma will have a "sustained" dialogue with "all stakeholders" to solve the problems in Jammu and Kashmir.

--Inputs from IANS

Arnima Dwivedi

Arnima Dwivedi

A journalist, presently working as a sub-editor with newstrack.com. I love exploring new genres of humans and humanity.

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