G.C. Murmu, the first Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir has evidently resigned as L-G precisely one year after it was made and is probably going to be delegated as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
The President has acknowledged the acquiescence of Shri Girish Chandra Murmu as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The President has been satisfied to appoint Shri Manoj Sinha, to be the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir with impact from the date he accepts the charge of his office vice Shri Girish Chandra Murmu”, a Rashtrapathi Bhavan release said.
Manoj Sinha, who filled in as Minister of Communications, and Minister of State for Railways in the NDA government will take over as the new Lieutenant-Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
As indicated by top sources, Mr. Murmu will replace Rajive Mehrishi as CAG and his arrangement notice is likely be given on a day or two.
Sources revealed that Mr. Murmu left Srinagar on Wednesday evening and continued to Jammu. He is expected to be in Delhi on Thursday.
As of late, Mr. Murmu has been associated with certain discussions over evident conflicts with the Center.
Most remarkably, his comments proposing 4G Internet ought to be reestablished in a difficult situation with security offices who had suggested against it.
In another occasion of difference, the Election Commission of India (EC) pulled him for saying that elections in the UT would follow the delimitation practice as this was the EC’s command. In an emphatic public statement, the EC expressed that it was not the space of L-G to comment on the timetable of holding decisions in the UT.
Mr. Murmu is a 1985 cluster Gujarat unit IAS Officer who worked intimately with PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in Gandhinagar just as in Delhi. He was Secretary-Expenditure when he was appointed as the primary L-G of the UT, after the past State of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories — J&K and Ladakh.
