PM Manmohan Singh will inaugurate on Wednesday the train service between Anantnag-Qazigund section which will connect the Kashmir valley to the rest of the country and is expected to make an important speech on the dialogue his govt has promised to the state.

Singh, who is undertaking a two-day visit to the state, the first during his second tenure, will flag off the new train service on the 18-km line which will link the valley with Srinagar and other important places.

He will address a public meeting after the inauguration in which he may speak on the dialogue with all shades of opinion in the state.

Home Minister P Chidambaram had recently said that the government would hold talks with every section of political opinion in the state through “quiet dialogue, quiet diplomacy” to find a political solution to the Kashmir problem that may be “unique”.

Several Union Ministers including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Farooq Abdulah, Mamata Banerjee and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will attend the inaugural ceremony.

With the opening of the line, the Railways have completed 119 km long Qazigund-Baramulla section of the Kashmir rail project.

The section has about 113 minor and major bridges of which the 435 metre long Veith river bridge is the longest.

Besides reviewing various ongoing projects with ministers and senior officials in the state, Singh will meet leaders of political parties.

He will also meet Central Reserve Police Force and other para military forces and address a press conference on Thursday before returning to the national capital.

PMO sources said there were no plans on the cards for the Prime Minister to meet any separatist leader.