The cracks in the Hurriyat Conference seem to have deepened with suspended leader Moulvi Abbas Ansari declaring on Thursday that the decision by Hurriyat chaiman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq spelt “azadi” for him. Meanwhile, rift within the separatist conglomerate widened when the Mirwaiz refuted Ansari’s earlier claim that New Delhi-appointed mediators — Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari — “just landed at my door”. He also accused the interlocutors of “adding confusion and working under extreme sense of desperation”.