He pointed out that 14 students from the Valley cleared the civil service examination this year and referred to 11 officers from Kashmir who recently graduated from the IMA. Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said chief ministers in Jammu and Kashmir often turned into “semi-separatists” when out of power, a remark seen as a veiled attack on NC leader and former CM Farooq Abdullah. Singh, questioning the “conviction” of separatists, said they drew privileges such as air ticket concessions, sought subsidised treatment in hospitals or “lobbied” for their offspring…
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