“ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings,” Cassius in Julius Caesar, Shakespeare .

The Omar Abdullah led government has been in “power” for one year to the day, today. From comrades to competitors, critics to clerics, and admirers to adversaries everyone is disappointed. Including, perhaps, Omar Abdullah himself.

After leading his party to a decisive electoral victory signaling a political resurgence which should have made him stronger, he has instead grown weaker and meeker with every passing day. The electoral triumph of National Conference has been subsumed by the travails of Omar Abdullah’s style of politics and tribulations of the substance of his governance. Indeed, disappointment has given way to disillusionment and palpable public

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