THREAT OF TRANSFER REMAINS, SAYS J&K GOVERNOR SATYA PAL MALIK
JAMMU: Amid a ranging controversy over his remarks on dissolving the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, Governor Satya Pal Malik has said the threat of transfer remains as it is not in one’s hands.
At a function organised to pay tributes to Congress leader and former minister Girdhari Lal Dogra on his 31st death anniversary here on Tuesday, he mentioned about the threat of transfer. “Girdhari Lal ji dedicated his life to the cause of the poor. As long as I am here, I will definitely come to pay my tributes to him... It (transfer) is not in one’s hands. I will not lose my job but the threat of transfer remains,” he said.
The transfer remark by the governor drew chuckles from the audience.
Malik said he was in MP and was down with fever for the past two days. “But in politics, fever or injury is not taken note of and I returned to be part of this function which was very important for me, given the stature of the departed leader,” he said.
Malik at another event on Saturday had said had he “looked to Delhi”, he would have had to install a government led by Sajad Lone, a claim which the opposition said on Tuesday vindicated its charge he was under pressure to put in place a “BJP-supported government”.
There was no reaction from the Centre or the BJP to the claim made by Malik, who said history would have remembered him as a “dishonest man” if he had asked Lone to form the government.