Differences cropped up in the all-party delegation over parleys with separatists with BJP distancing itself from it even as the national leaders visited Jammu to hear the views of groups of the region and understand the plight of displaced Kashmiri pandits.
      
A three-member team of the 36-member delegation headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram met yet another separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a hospital in Jammu where he demanded sustained dialogue and an end to killings and arrest of youths in the Valley.
     
The visit to the Valley ended with differences coming out in the open within the all-party delegation with BJP leader Sushma Swaraj saying that members of the group which met separatist leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani had done so in the individual capacity as there was no mandate for it.
     
Swaraj and her party colleague Arun Jaitley were not part of the teams which visited Geelani and other separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik in Srinagar on Monday.
     
CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury, who led the team to meet Geelani, admitted that MPs had chosen themselves to become part of the teams that visited separatist leaders' residences but said there was "no substance" in the BJP criticism as it had not opposed when the idea came up.
      
Yechury today led a 5-member team to three camps of displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu to understand their
plight, their view points, aspirations and problems.
     
The MPs visited the camps despite the fact that four Kashmiri Pandit organisations - Panun Kashmir, All Party Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC), Jammu and Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM) and Panun Kashmir Agnishaker -- boycotted the delegation.
     
Some Pandits staged a protest against the delegation and over 90 were taken into custody for it.
     
The Kashmiri Pandits demanded their rehabilitation back in the Valley, implementation of Prime Minister's rehabilitation package and opposed greater autonomy and revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir.
     
BJP initially wanted to boycott the delegation to protest against failure to invite 15 nationalist organisations for discussions but later met the MPs when an invitation was extended to it.
     
At the meeting, BJP strongly opposed any move to revoke the AFSPA and grant of Autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir. It also demanded setting of provincial councils in both Jammu and Kashmir provinces and grant of Union Territory status to Ladakh province.

PDP blamed "misgovernance" by the Omar Abdullah for present turmoil in Kashmir Valley and urged the Centre to address anti-India sentiment in Kashmir immediately.
     
"There has been anti-Indian sentiment in Kashmir since 1947. And misgovernace by the Omar Abdullah Government has triggered it into present turmoil in the Valley," PDP delegation leader and MLA Zulfikar Ali told reporters.

NC Speak
     
The ruling National Conference demanded greater autonomy but said any solution to the issue should be found within the framework of Indian Constitution.
     
It also wanted regional autonomy for equitable development of three regions of the state -- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
     
On the other hand, Congress, which shares power with NC, opposed any further autonomy for the state and revocation of the AFSPA.
     
"We are opposed to any more autonomy. The state already has too much autonomy. It has a separate flag and its own Constitution," head of the Congress delegation Mangat Ram said.
     
Meanwhile, before the delegation left for Jammu, LJP leader Ramvilas Paswan met Geelani and raised issues related to minority Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs.
     
Muslim Majlis MP Assaduddin Owaisi, who had on Monday met Geelani, met the Mirwaiz on Tuesday and asked him to contribute in restoring peace and normalcy in the valley.
     
A part of the delegation led by Chidambaram also went to Tangmarg, 44 kilometres from Srinagar, for an on-the-spot assessment of the damage in this small town in North Kashmir which witnessed violence on September 13 over the alleged desecration of Holy Quaran in the United States.
     
The Chief Minister expressed satisfaction over the visit of the delegation saying it was the endeavour of his
government that the visiting team got a balanced view about the situation in the state.
     
"I cannot expect everyone to praise me but the fact that they got a balanced view (about the situation) is important," he said.
     
Abdullah said the delegation's visit was not a "reality show" and they needed to know the ground situation in the Valley.
     
"Kashmir is not only about mainstream political parties only but also about separatist groups. Our effort was to show the visiting delegation the real picture of what is happening here," he said.
      
The delegation, which also had BJP's Arun Jaitley also, met a cross section of people in this area who sought early resolution of Kashmir issue.

Around 300 people who came forward to meet them also demanded revocation of Armed forces Special Powers Act, eradication of poverty, unemployment and complained about poor infrastructure.
     
Eleven members of the All Party delegation also visited the SMHS hospital to meet the injured people. They faced a protest demonstration by some locals, which Yechury downplayed saying "its a normal reaction".