The J&K Apni Party (JKAP) has opened channels of communication with a senior separatist leader, associated with the Hurriyat, to join the party in Srinagar.
Sources within the JKAP confirmed to The Hindu that the party president Altaf Bukhari met senior separatist leaders, including Prof. Abdul Ghani Bhat from the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat and Aga Syed Hassan Mosavi Al Safavi, a senior Shia leader from the Hurriyat once headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, in the recent past.
However, a close aide of the Aga told The Hindu these meetings as “one between individuals and has nothing political about it”. The reports of the Aga joining any political party “was completely a lie and baseless”, he said.
