The political parties in Kashmir including the members of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, have received a communication from the government of India for a meeting with the Prime Minister, scheduled later this month.The invite came at a time when J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha along with the top brass of police and administration met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. This is the second meeting of Sinha with Shah and BJP members within two weeks. “Government of India has invited us for the meeting around June 24, but we will decide on future course of action only after sharing and confirming the developments with other parties,” a senior leader from People’s Democratic Party told ET. The meeting would be the first formal engagement with the pro-election political leaders from J&K, most of whom were detained ahead of passing of J&K Reorganization Bill in the parliament on August 5, 2019, which brogated the special status of J&K and downgraded the erstwhile state of J&K state into the two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh. Most of the politicians were released in 2020 in a phased manner, after several months of detention. The government had detained over 7500 persons including Hurriyat leaders, lawyers, activists and trade leaders from across J&K around August 5, 2019. Some of them continue to remain under detention.The regional parties in J&K formed PAGD in October 2020, with former chief minister and sitting parliamentarian from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah as its president and former chief minister and PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti, as its vice president. The PAGD recently met in Srinagar after a gap of over six months, stating that ‘all doors were open for engagement with New Delhi.’A senior politician from the National Conference said that they have also got the invitation for the meeting, but the party is yet to decide. “We have to first decide at the party level and then at the PAGD level on how to go about it,” said another political leader.However, PAGD spokesperson and CPI(M) leader Muhammad Yusuf Tarigami said that the amalgam will only react, when development’s take any formal shape. “We can’t react to rumors. We are together and we will always share our concerns jointly,” said Tarigami. The LG’s meeting in Delhi is also seen as a precursor to the political meeting scheduled later this month. A senior politician, from J&K Apni Party which is not part of the PAGD, also confirmed that there is a meeting of political parties from J&K in Delhi later this month and some of the politicians have already been intimated. Interestingly in the last two weeks, several politicians from Kashmir have flown to Delhi for some kind of separate informal meetings.