00:00Umar, you met them in the first week of August 2019. It's been close to two years now,
00:07a lot has changed in the interim. Give us a sense of what the mood was like when you met them
00:12like face to face after this gap. Well, I mean
00:18in some ways it was almost surreal because not long ago we were detained by the government of
00:32J&K with the permission of the government of India and our detentions were justified
00:40using all sorts of claims. Take mine for example, my public safety act detention was justified
00:48saying that I have mobilized people to come out and vote in the face of a boycott. So I would be
00:56lying if I said that it was all completely as if nothing had happened. There was, I mean there was,
01:07I mean it was a bit surreal to begin with but the fact is that we have a responsibility
01:16beyond ourselves. I can't be governed by how I was treated in terms of how I approach my
01:26interaction with the government of India. The fact is the Prime Minister of India reached out
01:31to us for a dialogue and it was absolutely the appropriate and the correct thing to do
01:39to respond positively to that dialogue and to try and take this process forward. I will never
01:46forget what I went through but I've always said it's not about the individual, it's about the
01:53wider cause. We are fighting a much wider battle than what individually may have happened to myself
02:00or my father or Mehbooba Mufti Sahiba or to the others and for that wider cause it's important
02:08that we keep channels of communication open as much as possible.
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