New Delhi: Union Home minister Rajnath Singh offered talks before the Hurriyat Conference to join the peace process. The Jammu and Kashmir’s separatist leaders said on Tuesday that India’s leadership has to speak “in one voice” about Jammu and Kashmir.

“Let the Indian government give clarity on what it wants to talk about and speak in one voice. We are ready to join the process,” the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a conglomerate of separatist groups in Kashmir, said in a statement.

Syed Ali Geelani, leader of the hardline faction in Hurriyat, hosted a meeting at his Hyderpora residence on Tuesday. Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik were also present in the meeting.

The JRL said that it is important to have transparency in such a process and an assurance from all sides that promises and pledges will be honoured. On Saturday, union home minister Rajnath Singh had said that the Centre was ready to hold talks with the Hurriyat if its leadership comes forward. This is the first time in the recent past that the separatist leadership has not set any precondition for the start of any dialogue with the Centre.

“The statements regarding talks in the last few days from different people at the helm of affairs in New Delhi are unclear and ambiguous,’’ the leadership said, adding that while the home minister said there should be dialogue with both Kashmir and Pakistan, external affairs minister SushmaSwaraj put a rider saying no talks can be held with Pakistan unless terror stops.

The leadership further said that BJP president Amit Shah said the ceasefire is for the people and not militants, while J&K Director General of Police issued a statement that it’s for the militants to come back home. “The ambiguity leaves little room to consider the talk about talks seriously,” the JRL statement said.