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Delegations must be satisfied now as their main motive to meet the hard-line Hurriyat conference leader was coveted as a group of five leaders including Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury, who are the part of the 42 member all party delegation that has been sent to Kashmir for peaceful talks with the separatists, met the hard-line leader Syed Ahmed shah Geelani at his residence.

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Mr. Yechury was accompanied by Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi and three others when they met Geelani at his residence.

Earlier Geelani had shown his resent for the visit of the delegation team in Kashmir and told that it was yet another tactics of the government to deviate the people from their main demand.

He had also refused to meet the all-party delegation which had sent written invitation to all the separatists groups for talks to resolve the Kashmir crisis.

Besides Geelani, moderate Hurriyat Conference Chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is also under house arrest, as well as JKLF leader Yasin Malik, snubbed the invitation for talks.

Two similar groups of four members each are likely to meet moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and JKLF leader Yasin Malik.

It is also reported that 15 PDP delegates were sent to meet the all-party delegation after PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti refused to meet the delegation.

The delegation has been sent to Kashmir for two days to analyze the persisting situation in the Valley and hold talks with different groups before taking any decision to reduce the escalating tension.

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