Release of Masarat Alam- Impact on PDP-BJP alliance By Deepak Parvatiyar March 12, 2015 The Modi-led BJP government is left red faced over the release of hardline separatist Masarat Alam Bhat in the Kashmir Valley. It faces a hostile Opposition in Parliament over the issue. The former commander of the Hizbullah militant group had organised the violent anti-India riots in 2010 in which at least 112 people had died and over 500 were injured in the Kashmir Valley The release was made on March 7 – just within a week after the BJP supported Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party formed the government in the state. It came two days after the J&K PDP patron and CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed ordered political prisoners to be freed. Masrat Alam’s Release comes at a wrong time The release could not have come at a more inopportune time for the BJP, still struggling to find ways to justify softening its stand on Article 370. Its climb down on its stated stand of abr
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