CPI(M) general secretary and member of the all-party delegation to Jammu and Kashmir Sitaram Yechury called Mehbooba Mufti's invite to Hurriyat as PDP chief and not as chief minister "a compromise". "Government of India should have sent it and if they didn't then government of Jammu and Kashmir should have sent it," he said. The Left, he added was prepared to "go back to 1948" and from thereon "revisit what are the promises and assurances that were betrayed or not fulfilled." "This trust deficit comes from a string of promises betrayed," he said.