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Govt to abide by SC orders: Ansari

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 3/11/2015 2:18:12 PM

JAMMU, Mar 10: Even after the BJP chief Amit Shah sent across a message to the PDP not to play with the fire by chalking out a different course while remaining in alliance with the BJP in the state government.
Peoples Democratic Party Tuesday said the Jammu and Kashmir government would abide by the apex court directives on the release of political prisoners.
“Whatever the Supreme Court and courts tell us, we are going to abide by that (on release of political prisoners in future),” senior PDP leader and Minister for Sports, Imran Raza Ansari told reporters on the sidelines of a sports event here.
Earlier, in the day Shah met Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh and Lal Singh and took stock of the political situation during close door meeting.
It is learnt during the meeting Singh told Shah that he and other state party leaders had raised strong objections to Alam’s release, which was done unilaterally by ally PDP without discussion with BJP.
Meanwhile, in Jammu when Ansari was asked whether the Mufti Sayeed government had written to New Delhi assuring it that the policy to release political prisoners would be put on hold, Raza said, “Whatever law says …Whatever courts direct us …We have been maintaining this.”
On the issue of consulting coalition partner BJP or New Delhi, Raza said, “We are implementing authorities (of court orders)”.
“We are doing political reconciliation. Let that happen,” he said.
BJP legislators in Jammu and Kashmir had yesterday lodged a strong protest with Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed over the release of Alam and demanded his re-arrest.