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The All Party Hurriyat Conference on Thursday said it could re-consider its boycott of the coming assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir only if the move led to holding talks under United Nations supervision to settle the Kashmir issue.
Abdul Gani Bhatt, the outfit's chairman, said, "If the election are for a particular cause such as to elect the real representatives of Kashmiri people who will later take part in the dialogue under the UN supervision to settle Kashmir (issue), we will definitely come forward."
He rejected Centre's chief interlocutor on Kashmir K C Pant's statement asking the 23-party amalgam to take part in the polls to prove its representative character. "We have already stated that he (Pant) is fishing in a desert and planning to build bridges where there are no rivers," he said.
"We do not seek a chair or seat in assembly and if polls are conducted for making a government, we will never participate in such an exercise," he added.
Coming down heavily on senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah for his recent remarks against Hurriyat, Bhat said, "Why does not he (Shah) himself do what he wants others to do. Why blame others if he is not able to do anything?"
Earlier, disappointed at being cold-shouldered by Hurriyat on his call for unification of all separatist outfits in Kashmir, Shah, in an indirect reference to Hurriyat Conference had said, "Leaders cannot become representatives of the people by issuing two-line statements."
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