Reportedly satya pal malik, the incumbent governor of the state of Jammu and kashmir, is likely to be appointed as the Lieutenant-Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and kashmir on 31 October. Meanwhile Malik, who has been associated with political parties of all hues, was the first career politician to be appointed to the gubernatorial position of the politically sensitive state in 51 years after karan Singh whose term had ended in 1967.
Furthermore months after assuming charge of the state, which had been under Governor’s rule from June 2018, in a controversial move Malik dissolved the 87-member Assembly rejecting attempts at government formation by two sets of alliances the PDP, Congress and the National Conference and People’s Conference, bjp and 18 unknown members citing horse-trading and lack of stability due to ideological differences among the parties as the reasons and he then went on to recommend the imposition of the President’s Rule in the state following which the narendra modi government imposed President’s rule on 20 December, 2018.
Moreover in another controversial statement made in July this year, Malik asked militants to stop killing innocent people, including security personnel, and rather target "those who have looted the wealth of kashmir for years", evoking severe criticism from mainstream politicians.
