India, June 28 -- Everything comes with an expiry date and so does my patience: Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister Jammu and Kashmir

Only police under me, development domain of the elected Government: Manoj Sinha, LG Jammu and Kashmir

These are the warring comments by Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Mr Omar Abdullah. They made the observations on separate occasions but with the same intent of one-upmanship in the fragile constitutional framework

of Jammu and Kashmir. More so after August 5, 2019 when the special status of the Jammu and Kashmir was done away with, and made a powerless Union Territory with confusing lines of power-sharing between an elected Government and the Raj Bhawan. Is the eight-month-long truce between the self...