As officials were packing documents and files at J&K’s highest seat of power, the civil secretariat here, on Friday—the last day of ‘Durbar’ in Kashmir—people who had turned up to get their grievances redressed had to leave disappointed. “For the past four weeks, nothing is moving at the Secretariat. The ministers skipped their offices and preferred to stay in their constituencies or at their official bungalows,” said an official, insisting not to be named. “It seems Durbar move had started with the end of Assembly session on October 10 as…
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