Again a Politician at the Helm of J&K, New L-G Manoj Sinha to Reach Srinagar Today, Says ‘Big Responsibility’

For the past year, GC Murmu, an IAS officer, was in charge of the affairs of J&K. He resigned from his post on August 5.

New Delhi: Exactly a year after, erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir was reorganised and made a Union territory, J&K comes under a politician as for the past one year, GC Murmu, an IAS officer, was the Lieutenant General of the UT.

Delhi: Newly appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha leaves for airport. pic.twitter.com/1rLuFJ1yVs

— ANI (@ANI) August 6, 2020

The new LG will be going to Kashmir today, reports said. “It is a big responsibility,” Sinha said.

GC Murmu tendered his resignation on August 5. Reports said he is a frontrunner for the top post of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which will be vacant as Rajiv Mehrishi will be retiring this week.

A three-time BJP MP from Ghazipur, Sinha has been in the Union Cabinet till 2019. He, however, has no J&K connection. The UP-based politician started his political leader as a student leader at the Benaras Hindu University from where he completed his B.Tech and M. tech degrees in civil engineering. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996 and repeated the term in 1999. Sinha has been a member of the BJP national council from 1989 to 1996.