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| Mufti could have better started his 'reconciliation agenda' from Jammu | | Denouncement over Masarat's release | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 9: While Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's move to release hardliner separatist Masrat Alam who shot into notoriety during the infamous unrest of summer of 2010 has created ripples all across the country and left coalition partner BJP red faced, a dozen hapless activists of the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti who have been entangled in hefty court cases since the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board land row agitation of 2008, are questioning Mufti's benevolence towards a noted anti- national while they were facing trials for the last so many years despite the agreement reached out between the government of the day with the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti to withdraw all cases imposed on the activists during the agitation.
Government had imposed criminal cases including those of arson and rioting against 12 people during the agitation that followed the land row and despite the agreement; these people are still appearing before courts to defend themselves. While two of those made accused by the government have expired and ten are still facing trials that includes a septuagenarian, former Corporator of the Jammu Municipal Corporation. "Mufti's cutting haste to release a known anti national is nothing, but an attempt to appease the separatists and consolidate his vote bank in the Valley that thrives on separatist sentiment" said a lawyer in Jammu.
"Masrat Alam was the architect of the unrest of 2010 in the Valley, who organized notorious stone pelters across the Valley and instigated people to wage war against the nation; he carried a reward on his head and was arrested under Public Safety Act, yet the Chief Minister, after merely a week of assuming office paved way for his release, " rued the lawyer questioning BJP's silence over the plight of those facing trial in the SASB Land Row. "Why did not BJP spare a thought on these remaining ten people, who are still facing trials?" he asked.
Meanwhile, when the entire country is questioning Mufti's over enthusiasm over his agenda of 'reconciliation', political watchers believe that Mufti would have done far better for his own cause had he begun from Jammu, by withdrawing cases against these ten people. "Such an initiative would not only have granted legitimacy to his move to release Masrat Alam, but also helped to project himself beyond the biases of regionalism and vote bank politics" opined a former legislator from Jammu.
However, just as Separatists rejected Mufti's overtures when he sought credit for them for 'allowing' peaceful elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Alam denied any credit of his release to the Chief Minister, or his party arguing that there were no charges against him, and he was released in the due course of a legal process. |
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