Dear Chief Minister,

I did not vote for you. That may not matter to you, but it matters to me, because in a time when politics has become transactional, where loyalty is rewarded and dissent is dismissed, it is important to begin with honesty. I did not vote for you, and yet, here I am writing this letter not out of loyalty, but out of hope that perhaps, this time, leadership might mean listening.

You now sit in a chair that carries more than power. It carries the weight of too many broken promises, too many speeches that led nowhere, and too many young lives that began with dreams but ended in disillusionment.

Our youth are tired. Tired of waiting. Tired of being told they are the future while their present is suffocated by a constant sense of being watched but not seen. They want peace, but not silence. They want development, but not at cost of demolition of identity.

This is your moment but it is ours too. You have inherited a region that has seen too much and heard too little. We do not ask for perfection. We ask for the truth. We ask for leadership that looks beyond headlines and walks the streets it represents.

We know the complexities you face. We understand the........

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