Shah Faesal: ‘My idealism let me down’: Ex-IAS officer Shah Faesal drops hints about return to service

Former IAS officer Shah Faesal, who was the primary UPSC topper from Jammu and Kashmir, on Wednesday dropped hints about his return to authorities service in some kind. In a sequence of tweets, Faisal spoke about his idealism letting him down in 2019 when he resigned from authorities service to hitch politics.

“Eight months of my life (Jan 2019-Aug 2019) created a lot baggage that I used to be nearly completed. Whereas chasing a chimera, I misplaced nearly every little thing that I had constructed through the years. Job. Pals. Popularity. Public goodwill. However I by no means misplaced hope. My idealism had let me down,” he tweeted.

“However I had religion in myself. That I might undo the errors I had made. That life would give me one other probability. Part of me is exhausted with the reminiscence of these 8 months and desires to erase that legacy. A lot of it’s already gone. Time will mop off the remainder In imagine,” he added.

Though Faesal didn’t spell out what he meant by “one other probability”, hypothesis has been rife right here over the previous one 12 months that he would possibly return to authorities service both as an IAS officer or in some advisory function to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

“Simply considered sharing that life is gorgeous. It’s at all times price giving ourselves one other probability. Setbacks make us stronger. And there may be a tremendous world past the shadows of the previous. I flip 39 subsequent month. And I am actually excited to start out over again,” he wrote.

There was an outpouring of help for Faesal from his mates and former Civil providers colleagues.

Faesal, who topped the UPSC examination in 2009, resigned from service in January 2019, citing “rising intolerance” within the nation.

He floated his personal political occasion — Jammu and Kashmir Individuals’s Motion — in March that 12 months and had plans to contest meeting elections which had been to be held.

He was arrested within the wake of abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in August that 12 months.

Nevertheless, after his launch, Faesal gave up on politics and began dropping hints of creating a coming again.

He has been an ardent supporter, on the social media, of the current authorities’s insurance policies. Faesal has been usually sharing speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah on his Twitter deal with.