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Azad and Peerzada

When Ghulam Nabi Azad joined as Chief Minister of the State, people of Jammu felt elated because he was the first ever Chief Minister from this region. People of Valley however were cynical about this development believing that it was only a Kashmiri who had the right to rule the State. So they would publicly express their anguish and claim that they would not let a Gujjar from Jammu rule them ignorant of the fact that Azad is one amongst them whose forefathers belonging to Bhat clan of Kashmiri Muslims, not much ago had migrated to Bhallesa a remote hilly area in Jammu region. They also had declared that a time will come when Azad will wind up from the Valley and look back only after crossing Banihal Tunnel. It seems that time has come. Today having failed on all fronts the overenthusiastic leader from Jammu is contemplating to wind up his luggage and looking for an escape route to leave the State and do politics in New Delhi believing that political atmosphere was more conducive for him at national level rather than in his own state. During his two year long stint in CM’s chair Azad has earned more enemies than friends and this happened because his moves were immature. His war against corruption has been derailed; his crusade against the land Mafia has boomeranged; his slogans of work culture and double shift have proved hoax; his assurances of providing a clean and transparent administration have fallen short and his claims to make politics clean have fallen flat.It is not that he has not done anything to It is not that he has not done anything to ...FULL STORY

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