Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani refused to meet members of an all-party delegation to Jammu and Kashmir
The government will review facilities, including top security, provided to Kashmir separatists, in follow-up action to the visit to Jammu and Kashmir of an all-party delegation of Parliamentarians.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who had led the delegation, briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday morning and later in the evening met top leaders of the BJP, including party chief Amit Shah and Finance Minster Arun Jaitley.
After the meet, Ram Madhav, BJP's key interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, said that a blueprint of action is being drawn and it will be discussed at the all-party meet today.
The government, said sources, is contemplating a crackdown after the members of the Hurriyat Conference snubbed individual members of the all-party delegation who tried to talk to them in Srinagar on Sunday.
They had also rejected an invitation for dialogue sent by BJP ally Mehbooba Mufti - not as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, but as chief of the People's Democratic Party, emphasised Rajnath Singh, who has described the separatists' conduct as "neither
Kashmiriyat nor
Insaniyat (humanity)."
Sources said the government's action could include reviewing and scaling down the high security provided to some separatists like hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who kept the gates of his Srinagar residence closed as the Left's Sitaram Yechury and other MPs attempted to meet him on Sunday. His supporters greeted the MPs with anti-India slogans.
Mr Geelani and other separatists like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik also get airport privileges, housing from the government and free medical services.
Sources said at their meeting on Tuesday, PM Modi and Rajnath Singh also discussed an administrative outreach in Kashmir, where there are complaints that policies and schemes have not been reviewed regularly.
The centre is looking at sending delegations led by junior ministers and including people from different walks of life like academics and professionals, to learn about the people's problems and suggest how schemes can be tweaked to benefit them more.
The Prime Minister in Delhi will today meet the 26 parliamentarians from 20 parties who visited Jammu and Kashmir.
They will discuss an action plan to resolve the crisis in the state, where over 70 people have died and nearly 10,000 have been injured in the last two months as protesters have clashed with security forces since July 8, when Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani was killed.