Mehbooba Mufti also batted for reviving the dialogue process with Pakistan. (File Photo)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today called for taking all the stakeholders on board as part of a politically-inclusive agenda to address the problems confronting the state.
She also batted for reviving the dialogue process with Pakistan.
"The country's political leadership has to take on board all the stakeholders and pursue an agenda which is politically-inclusive and development-intensive to address the challenges confronting Jammu and Kashmir," Ms Mehbooba said addressing an All-Party Meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
She said the government would act as a facilitator for resolving the problems and challenges confronting Jammu and Kashmir if tangible steps are taken to reach out to all the stakeholders.
"A new course for Jammu and Kashmir can be chalked out only by reaching out to all the stakeholders including the youth, who have to pay big price because of the uncertainties plaguing the state for the over past six decades," she said.
Stressing that the voice of the state's people should be heard and tangible confidence building measures be taken to address the alienation and reduce trust deficit, she said, "A beginning in this regard can be made by implementing recommendations of the five Working Groups, constituted by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and reiterated in PDP-BJP's 'Agenda of Alliance'."
Mehbooba Mufti said the recommendations comprehensively dealt with almost all aspects of the problems confronting Jammu and Kashmir including the centre-state relations, strengthening relations across LoC, confidence building measures (CBM) across segments of society in J&K, economic development of Jammu and Kashmir and ensuring good governance.
Mehbooba Mufti said that her government strongly believes that nothing was valid and should happen for Jammu and Kashmir except with the active involvement of its people.
"However, the people from all shades of political opinion shall have to evolve a consensus on a pragmatic and workable solution to the problems confronting the state in the interest of peace and stability," she said, adding that the time has come to strike a new benchmark in the light of the global and regional realities for the resolution of the state's problems.