The NC got 28 seats. Down by 29. Farooq Abdullah is wonderful company, is witty, irreverent, ebullient, courtesy personified, hospitable and a good friend. Sitting in an office and poring over files is not his forté. Beyond a point, his free-wheeling style, his frequent jaunts abroad earned him the title of NRCM or Non-Resident Chief Minister. When the cat is away, the mice have a free ride. The state bureaucracy could ask for nothing more congenial. They ruled or misruled as they pleased. I'm confident the new dispensation will end the administrative high-handedness and make the bureaucracy an instrument for efficient and honest governance.