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BJP's Ram calls on Mufti to smoothen coalition Alam release aftermath 3/12/2015 11:04:49 PM Bashir Assad Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 12: Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav met Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti at their residence in Jammu last night to smoothen out the tensions following the release of separatist Masarat Alam. Highly-placed sources told ET that Ram Madhav dropped in at Mufti's residence late on Wednesday evening to discuss the post-Masarat Alam release scenario. Sources say the BJP leader impressed upon the Chief Minister and the PDP President that the highly-sensitive issues which have been accorded top priority in the national security scenario should be handled only after complete consensus. Sources said that after the clarification statement issued by Home Minister Rajnath Singh regarding Masarat Alam's release, Mufti had expressed his anguish over the way the issue was handled by the BJP top brass in and outside the Parliament. Rajnath Singh had informed the Parliament that Masarat Alam's release had been initiated during Governor's rule in the state. It is learnt that Mufti conveyed his displeasure to Ram Madhav regarding the over-reaction of the BJP leaders to the issue. However, Mufti, according to sources, agreed that the coalition government headed by him should take into account the sensitivities involved in security-related issues. Sources privy to the developments said that meeting was aimed that resolving any residual tensions over the issue, and ended amicably. There is growing realization in Kashmir, and also in some quarters in Delhi, that the furore in the Parliament and the media over the release of Masarat Alam Bhat was nothing more than a storm in a teacup. Political analysts of Kashmir have emphasized that the state's decision to release Masarat Alam and other political prisoners languishing in jails for many years should be seen in the right perspective, because Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed knows the urgency as well as the consequences of such a decision. Regarding Masarat Alam's release, a seasoned political observer of Srinagar stated that if the political parties and the self-styled Kashmir experts are insisting that Government of India should approve even a decision to release an individual, they are not only undermining the office of Chief Minister but also showing contempt towards people who voted him to power. Meanwhile, sections in the national media have conceded that the angry parliamentary exchanges over the release of Masarat Alam Bhat from prison threaten to give hardliners in both parties an opportunity to shape the coalition's agenda. The top leadership of PDP and BJP is concerned that redressing deep-seated wounds in a communally fractured state is the most important political task in J&K, and there should be no deviation from pursuing this objective in a focused manner.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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