| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | As speculation continued whether chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari would stay or be “honourably retired” with a governor’s job, the growing feeling in the state Congress was his successor should be someone who was an “integral part of the movement for a separate hill state” and not merely a nominee of Delhi. |
 | | Instead of using region and caste as the determinants to pick a new leader — whether he or she ought to be from Garhwal or Kumaon and a Brahmin or a Thakur — sources felt a person who was “hardworking, sharp, honest and with mass contact” should be chosen. |
 | | While Tiwari was brought in with high expectations — given his record as Union finance minister and Uttar Pradesh chief minister — the perception was he “failed” because he could not “properly guide” the bureaucracy, which was grappling with the problems of an infant state. |
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