All party meet to discuss K-interlocutors' report: Chidambaram

New Delhi, Jul 26 (PTI) The Centre will convene an
all party meeting once the interlocutors on Kashmir submit
their recommendations for discussing them, Home Minister P
Chidambaram has said.
"The interlocutors were appointed after the all party
meeting. So I suppose once the interlocutors give the report,
I think so, I will have to ask my colleagues and the Prime
Minister (Manmohan Singh), we will perhaps take the report to
the All Party Meeting," Chidambaram told PTI.
Chidambaram said that the interlocutors had done bulk
of their work and were now in the process of submitting their
recommendations.
While no date on the submission of the report by the
three-member panel comprising noted journalist Dilip
Padgaonkar, academician Radha Kumar and former Chief
Information Commissioner M M Ansari had been fixed, sources
said that the final report may be handed over to the
government by end of the September this year.
The appointment of the three-member panel on Kashmir
was part of the eight-point Kashmir formula announced by the
Centre after an all party meeting in September last year that
was called after the Valley saw widespread unrest fuelled by
separatists.
The interlocutors have so far made 10 visits to the
state and covered 18 of the 22 districts during which they
have met nearly 5,000 people which includes political leaders,
trade unions, lawyers, student unions and newly elected Panchs
and Sarpanchs.
The panel will now be visiting four remaining
districts -- Shopian, Kupwara and Baramulla in Kashmir and
Sambha in Jammu after which they were expected to hold
meetings with major political parties in the state to discuss
broad contours of the report.