Government on Wednesday expressed its willingness to hold talks with "any group" from the Kashmir Valley wishing to come foward amid indications that it would be soon coming out with a series of measures to address the issue.
"We hope to restart the dialogue process. We will talk to any group, any political party which is willing to talk to us," Union Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters while presenting a report card of his ministry for the month of August.
He was replying to questions on whether the Centre would kick-start political process of a dialogue with groups especially the separatists with violence showing signs of decline.
The Home Minister made it clear that the Central government was willing to talk to all sections of people in Jammu and Kashmir.
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