Manoj Sinha to be New Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, President Accepts Murmu’s Resignation

On the first anniversary of J&K reorganisation, GC Murmu tendered his resignation. 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.

New Delhi: Former Union minister Manoj Sinha will be the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, a release from the President’s House said, confirming that GC Murmu’s resignation has been accepted.

On the first anniversary of J&K reorganisation, GC Murmu tendered his resignation. 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.

Murmu, a 1985-batch Gujarat cadre officer, worked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was the Gujarat Chief Minister. Then he worked in the finance ministry.

Sinha was also in charge (independent) of the ministry of communications and the railways ministry (minister of state). The 61-year-old BJP leader is a three-time BJP MP in the Lok Sabha from Ghazipur. Manoj Sinha is a UP-based politician. His political career started from 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.