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Govt in J&K may change, situation remains same: Masarat Alam
Srinagar, Mar 8 (IBNS): A day after senior Hurriyat Conference (G) leader and chairman of Muslim League Masarat Alam Bhat was released, the separatist leader said governments may change in Jammu and Kashmir but the reality in the state will remain same.
"I was granted bail thrice, that's why I have been released now. I have spent my life in jails, not a big deal to get arrested again," Bhay was quoted as saying in media.
The Congress also slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party-Peoples Democratic Party government in Jammu and Kashmir for releasing Bhat.
"BJP- PDP govt Releases Masrat Alam in Srinagar, BJP protests in Jammu, evades in Delhi Ques Mr PM who is he political prisoner or terrorist?," Congress leader Manish Tewari tweeted.
Former chief minister of the state Omar Abdullah tweeted: "Yes, my Govt detained Masarat Alam & we kept him out of circulation. Detention isn't ideal but difficult situations have to be tackled. Alam was the chief architect of the 2010 protests. It's not a coincidence that the protests died out AFTER his hard won detention."
"The summer of 2010 was never repeated again, not even after Afzal Guru's execution & a huge reason for that was the absence of Alam. So either Alam has turned a new leaf & done a deal with Mufti Syed or he will go back to organising trouble in he valley. Time will tell," he posted.
"Which ever way I look at it Alam's detention saved lives AND allowed a smother safer pair of elections so I have no regrets at all. One last thing for those insisting on calling Alam a "political prisoner" please check YouTube for his videos & then rush in to judge me," he tweeted.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday released senior Hurriyat Conference (G) leader and chairman of Muslim League Masarat Alam Bhat, officials said.
He was released from prison after four years.
Bhat, who was alleged to be behind issuing calendar protests during the 2010 uprising, was undergoing detention in the district jail at Baramulla on a case registered under sections 107 and 151 in the Shaheed Gunj police station here.
He was apprehended in Harwan area on October 2010 during an operation in which the police and the central agencies had been tracking every details of his movements in the city.
Bhat, whose Muslim League is a constituent of the Hurriyat Conference headed by Geelani, was arrested for his alleged role in
fuelling anti-national protests during the agitations that left more than 120 persons dead and thousands others injured.
His release comes days after Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed asked police to start releasing political prisoners against whom there are no criminal charges.
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