Appointment of Dineshwar Sharma as Special Representative of the Centre is fifth major attempt by the Government of India during past about two decades to open channels of dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir to find out solution to Kashmir problem.
KC Pant, former Defence Minister and NN Vohra, presently the J&K Governor were two first Interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, who had initiated dialogue with cross-sections of society.
The UPA-I headed by Dr Manmohan Singh had appointed five Working Groups on J&K including the one headed by former Vice President Dr Hamid Ansari, which had held exhaustive discussions and submitted their recommendations.
The UPA-II, also headed by Dr Manmohan Singh had appointed three Interlocutors including Dileep Padgaonkar, Prof Radha Kumar and MM Ansari, who had submitted their report to the Union Home Ministry.
During the UPA regime, a number of Round Table Conferences were also held on J&K.
However, reports of all Interlocutors and Working Groups, never saw light of the day as majority of their recommendations were not implemented.
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