By IANS,
New Delhi : Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Wednesday appealed to all political parties to take a “suitable decision” to break the “vicious cycle of violence and suffering” in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Together let us arise at a suitable decision on which we can all agree to break this vicious cycle of violence and suffering,” Gandhi said at the all-party meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here.
“Let’s put aside our ideological and political differences. We are facing far too serious a challenge to allow those differences to stand in the way of resolute sensitive and appropriate action,” Gandhi, who led the Congress delegation at the crucial meeting, said.
The meeting, that came in the wake of escalated violence in the Valley that has seen 88 people being killed since the present phase of unrest started June 11, was attended by all major political parties. Besides parties like the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left parties, Jammu and Kashmir’s two main political groupings, the ruling National Conference and the People’s Democratic Party, also attended.