TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he wanted to end ‘Dilli ki duri’ as well as ‘Dil ki duri’ with Jammu and Kashmir, which has been witnessing prolonged spell of militancy and unrest.
He said this at a meeting held with 14 political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir to discuss the future course of political action — two years after the abrogation of the Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two union territories. Modi said he wanted to remove ‘Dilli ki duri’ as well as ‘Dil ki duri’ (distance from Delhi as well as distance of heart), according to official sources.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, four former chief ministers of the erstwhile state — Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah of the National Conference, Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad and People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti — were among those who attended the three-and-a-half-hour-long meeting.
