Peerzada’s socks and shoes in Wikileaks
A United States Embassy cable sent from New Delhi described Congress leader and Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Syed as someone who "behaves like a traditional Congress machine politician, one who asks his staff to put on his socks and shoes for him".
The partial extract of the original cable, which details the profile of Kashmir-related leaders, dates back to 2005.
The three-part biographic report compiled "information academics, journalists, NGO activists and others during a 2002-2005 assignment at embassy New Delhi" and impressions gained from contact with Kashmir-related politicians, government officials, separatists.
"President of J&K Congress Party, Sayeed (52) behaves like a traditional Congress machine politician, one who asks his staff to put on his socks and shoes for him," the leaked cable reads.
In the 2002 state polls, he braved terrorist threats in the volatile Kokernag constituency in South Kashmir and was inducted into the Cabinet on account of his loyalty to the party. Prior to his current appointment, he was a senior Vice President of the state unit of the Congress party. His English is good, the cable said.
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