Hurriyat constituent suspended as its leader met interlocutors

Itehad-ul-Muslimeen is one of the 7 parties in the Executive Committee.

Moderate separatist Kashmiri group Hurriyat Conference headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Wednesday suspended its constituent Itehad-ul-Muslimeen (IuM) after the chief patron of the party Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari met the Centre’s interlocutors on Kashmir here.

“We have suspended IuM for violating the Hurriyat decision on the issue of meeting the interlocutors appointed by Government of India,” said Mirwaiz.

Ansari,a former chairman of the Hurriyat Conference,met the interlocutors panel headed by veteran journalist Dileep Padgaonkar on Wednesday.

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The IuM is among the founder constituents of Hurriyat Conference and one of the seven parties which have representative in the highest decision-making body,the Executive Committee.

Mirwaiz said the suspension will remain in force till the next meeting of the executive body of the amalgam which is likely to take place sometime next week.

“Although IuM is represented by Ansari’s son,Maulana Masroor Abbas Ansari in the Hurriyat meetings,the party is a member of the amalgam and should have abided by the Hurriyat decision,” he said.

Ansari was the chairman of the Hurriyat Conference when hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had engineered a split in the amalgam for the failure of the leadership to run an effective boycott campaign in the 2002 Assembly elections.

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