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After his meeting with Mirwaiz, Yechury said, "We are After his meeting with Mirwaiz, Yechury said, "We areurging both sides to first restore normalcy and ensure thatsufferings of people during last two months ends. Startunconditional political dialogue." He said "When government gives slogans, some tangiblefollow up steps should also be taken." Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talk about"Vikas (development) and Vishwas (trust)", the CPI(M) leadersaid "no tangible steps have been taken to develop trust amongthe Kashmiri people." He said the governemnt keeps on repeating Vajpayee’sstatement of ‘Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat and Insaniyat’ but"forgot the steps taken by the former Prime Minister alongwith the slogan like unilateral ceasefire during Ramzan andtalks with Hizbul Mujahideen. (The then) Deputy Prime MinisterL K Advani himself held number of meetings with Hizbulleaders." Earlier, Owaisi said Mirwaiz expressed his inability tohave any talks because of position taken by his organisation. "I met him (the Mirwaiz) and he told me that myorganisation has not mandated any talks with theparliamentarians. He expressed his inability to carry out anytalks," the AIMIM leader said. He described the attempt as "ice breaking" and hoped itwill continue with "some constructive steps being taken by thestate and the central government. The process of dialogueneeds to continue." The 26-member parliamentary delegation, which arrivedhere this morning, began its engagements with a meeting withthe Chief Minister Mehbooba who pitched for unconditionaldialogue with all stakeholders. "Met the ‘All Party Delegation’ at SKICC today andpitched for unconditional talks with all stakeholders,"Mehbooba wrote in a Facebook post. She refused to talk toreporters at the venue of the meeting. She said she was committed to help initiate a "sustainedand meaningful dialogue" within the state with politicalgroups, irrespective of the ideological views andpredilections of the political groups. It was followed by a meeting with National Conferenceleader and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who spoke of"continuous failure of the state government and its dillydallying tactics". During his hour-long interaction with the delegation,Omar recalled the previous all-party delegation visits since1990 to Kashmir and said that "unfortunately when things cooldown, there is no progress on the issue". He said the MPs who have come here this time face amammoth task in their hands to revive faith in this process.(MORE) PTI SKL ABS AKKAKK