New Delhi, Oct. 13: Against the popular demand from political parties for a political person to head the proposed group of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir, the government on Wednesday named three interlocutors, including the journalist, Mr Dileep Padgaonkar, to hold sustained talks with all shades of opinion in the state.
Besides Mr Padgaonkar, the information commissioner, Mr M.M. Ansari, and the noted academic, Mr Radha Kumar, who is said to have been part of the Track-II dialogue with Pakistan, were among the others named by the Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, as interlocutors chosen in consultation with the state government.