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A SUITABLE CANDIDATE
There is buzz in Srinagar
whether 82-year-old N. N.
Vohra—J&K governor since
2008—will get another exten-
sion or be finally replaced. An
efficient administrator and
amenable to working with all
dispensations, Vohra’s second
gubernatorial term is ending in
a month. Sources tell Outlook
the Centre is yet to make up its
mind about replacing him.
Vohra, an ex-bureaucrat and
Kashmir interlocutor, was the
first civilian governor of J&K in
18 years after Jagmohan. If
Vohra does get replaced, the
post may again go to either a
former spy or an ex-soldier: in
the race are a former chief of
army staff and an ex-IB chief.
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HIGH TEA DIPLOMACY
Diplomats by training are sticklers
for etiquettes: careful in what they
say or do in public; most maintain
this habit even on retirement. A
former Indian diplomat and his
wife are making all efforts to break
away from this norm. The couple
is now not only making news for
becoming a permanent fixture in
most diplomatic receptions. But it
is their propensity to “gatecrash”
into events—especially those
hosted at Delhi’s IIC—that is fast
making them notorious as the
latest pair of “free-loaders” in
town. No book launch or painting
exhibition in the capital that
are usually preceded by ‘tea and
snacks’ can now escape the pair’s
presence. So far the marauding
duo seems oblivious to the huge
embarrassment that their conduct
is causing in the diplomatic circle.
VOTE FOR FARMERS
The Congress seems to have
picked up the ‘plight of farm-
ers’ as an issue central to its
campaign in poll-bound
Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan. Party chief Rahul
Gandhi is scheduled to visit
Mandsaur on June 6 to mark
the first year of ‘Goli-kand’
where five protesting farmers
were killed in police firing.
Sources say the party plans to
turn the event into a huge rally
to launch its mega campaign
for the polls, scheduled for
later this year. The strategy is
to mobilise farming commu-
nity and focus the attack on
chief minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan rather than PM
Narendra Modi.