The National Conference had urged Governor Satya Pal Malik to allow a delegation of senior party leaders to meet Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah. (Photo: PTI)

Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Saturday granted permission to the 15-member delegation of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) to meet party president Farooq Abdullah and vice-president Omar Abdullah today in Srinagar.

The 15-member NC delegation is led by NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana.

"The delegation led by Provincial President Mr Devender Singh Rana and comprising former party legislators will leave by Indigo flight from Jammu tomorrow, October 6, 2019, in the morning," NC spokesperson Madan Mantoo said yesterday.

The National Conference on Thursday had urged Governor Satya Pal Malik to allow a delegation of senior party leaders from Jammu to meet former J&K chief ministers--Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, who are currently under house arrest in Srinagar.

The NC leaders had expressed anguish over the continued detention of senior leaders, including Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, as also the other top leaders of the mainstream political parties, the party spokesman had said.

The party will chalk out its future course of action after meeting the top leadership. At a meeting convened by senior leaders based in Jammu at the Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan in Srinagar, the party also took a detailed review of the political situation in the state, the spokesperson had said on Friday.

Top state leaders including Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah are currently under house arrest since the lockdown was imposed in the state earlier in August after the abrogation of Article 370. However, the Jammu and Kashmir administration had ended the house arrest of almost all political leaders from Jammu on Wednesday.

The Centre's decision to put leaders locked inside the house had come when it was about to strike off the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and split the state into two union territories.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration and many prominent leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party have defended the move to put such leaders under preventive detention and said the action was taken to prevent any untoward incident after the scrapping of Article 370.