Former chief minister and Awami National Conference (ANC) President G M Shah will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence in New Delhi on Monday and seek assurance about holding free and fair polls in the State.
Sources said that Shah will have a one to one meeting with the prime minister and apprise him about the prevailing ground situation in the State.
ANC had decided to participate in the State assembly elections scheduled later this year and contest polls from all the assembly segments.
Shah, considered an old war-horse of Kashmir's politics, will also apprise the PM about the human rights situation in the Valley and ask Singh to rein in troopers, who are accused of gross human rights violations, ANC sources said.
The party sources said that Shah would requesting the prime minister to release all Kashmiri political detainees languishing in different jails and interrogation centres in Jammu and Kashmir and various Indian states.
Sources said that he would also apprise the PM about holding an Intra Kashmir conference to be held in Srinagar where leaders from Kashmir and Pakistan administered Kashmir would participate, party sources said.
They said Shah will also seek PM’s assurance for holding the forthcoming elections in the state under impartial observers.
The estranged brother-in-law of Farooq Abdullah, Shah, had sought a meeting with the prime minister and it was granted upon the PM’s return from Bhutan.This is for the first time in 22 years that Shah, who had rejected his party's participation in the earlier election, would meet any leader in New Delhi.
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