Fading Glitter ; the Man Who Started As the Valley's Greatest Hope Is Fast Turning Out to Be a Huge Letdown.
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There is more to being a chief minister than riding a Ducati 999 along the Dal Lake. This is something that Omar Abdullah, the country's youngest chief minister, is fast realising as he steers through some rocky terrain. As the 39-year-old took office early this year, the hopes of the Kashmiri people rode high.
Here was a young, clean GenNext politician who had won a credible mandate with an impressive 60 per cent voter turnout. For most, this earnest Abdullah epitomised a new dawn in the strife-torn Valley. He spoke a new language of development, investment and employment, of setting up junta durbars, 24-hour helplines and even a Truth and Reconciliation Commission between J & K and Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir.See the full content of this document
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Fading Glitter ; the Man Who Started As the Valley's Greatest Hope Is Fast Turning Out to Be a Huge Letdown.
Six months later, as the rhetoric of rape and riots refuses to go away, a weary sense of deja vu has crept over the Valley. The mishandling of the Shopian rape and murder case, the Bomai and Baramulla firings has dulled the shine of the Omar era even before it could begin.
"Give him time, it's too early to j...See the full content of this document
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