Amarnath Samiti to meet All Party team, bandh extended to August 14

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The group spearheading the agitation over the Amarnath land transfer row today decided to meet the All Party team arriving here tomorrow for talks to help defuse the crisis even as it announced that the bandh in the Jammu region will be further extended till August 14.
The Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS),leading the over a month-long stir, however said it would not hold any parleys with the four-member team constituted by Governor N N Vohra till it came forward with a positve roadmap for resolution of the land issue.
The Samiti's announcements on the eve of the visit of the 18-party delegation headed by Home Minister Shivraj Patil were made by Samiti convenor Leela Karan Sharma at a news conference here after its meeting.
The decision to extend the bandh was taken at a meeting of over 250 members of the Samiti presided over by Brigadier (retd) Suchet Singh at Geeta Bhavan.
Sharma said he had recieved two telephone calls from the all party delegation for a meeting with the Samiti members. He however did not give the identity of who called him up. The meeting is scheduled to last for about two hours but the venue has not been decided so far, he added.