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End to reign of terror, feel Patnaites
With RJD's 15-year "misrule" becoming history, a fresh breeze of hope seems to be blowing in Bihar.
That a new government led by NDA's Nitish Kumar would be in place on Thursday has spawned a feel-good situation in which people appear to have forgotten the bad, old days when traders, doctors and school students were kidnapped for ransom or killed.
Ask Poonam Devi whose son, Gaurav Kumar alias Golu, was kidnapped on September 20. For 26 days till her child, a DAV student, returned amid media outcry against the abduction, she wailed inconsolably.
"I am very happy... I hope the new government would ensure the rule of law and no mother would undergo the trauma I had undergone," Poonam, a businessman's wife, told TOI on Wednesday.
The elections marked the end of the "reign of terror", said Professor Naval Kishore Choudhary of Patna University, narrating how he felt absolutely safe going home from the railway station "as late as 11:30 pm" on Tuesday. The fright of criminals has just evaporated, he said.
In those days of abductions almost every alternate day, doctors were probably the worst hit. But with a change of guard, "it's now time for us to take it easy," as many put it.
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