Srinagar: The National Conference on Thursday sent invitations to 52 leaders from national and J&K-based political parties, as well as religious groups, to participate in its protest programme on statehood at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on July 20.
The invitation letters, have been sent to all leaders of the INDIA bloc, including Sonia Gandhi (Chairperson, Congress Parliamentary Party); Mallikarjun Kharge (President, Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha), M.K. Stalin (President, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), Mamata Banerjee (Chairperson, All India Trinamool Congress), Akhilesh Yadav (National President, Samajwadi Party), Lalu Prasad Yadav (National President, Rashtriya Janata Dal), Sharad Pawar (National President, Nationalist Congress Party), Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena (UBT) and Arvind Kejriwal (National Convenor, Aam Aadmi Party).
Other national leaders invited include Asaduddin Owaisi (President, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) and Sukhbir Singh Badal (President, Shiromani Akali Dal).
The leaders invited from J&K include Ghulam Nabi Azad (chairman, Democratic Progressive Azad Party), Mehbooba Mufti (President, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party) Sat Paul Sharma (State President, Bharatiya Janata Party, J&K), Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari (President, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party, Sajjad Gani Lone (President, Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference) and Tariq Hameed Karra (President, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee), Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami (State Secretary, CPI(M)) and Abdul Rashid Sheikh (founder and chief leader, Jammu and Kashmir Awami Ittehad Party).
The invitation letters have also been sent to Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq (chairman MMU) and Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam (Grand Mufti of J&K).—(KNO)