Amid controversy over his remarks that had he looked to Delhi, he would have had to install Sajjad Lone-led government in Jammu and Kashmir, Governor Satya Pal Malik has spoken about a "threat of transfer"
Amid controversy over his remarks that had he looked to Delhi, he would have had to install Sajjad Lone-led government in Jammu and Kashmir, Governor Satya Pal Malik has spoken about a "threat of transfer".
Speaking at a function to mark the death anniversary of Girdhari Lal Dogra, Malik said that he will not lose his job but the threat of transfer is there.
"As long as I'm here - it's not in my hands - I don't know when I will be transferred from here. I will not lose my job but the threat of transfer is there," reported NDTV quoting Malik.
The Governor also said that as long as he is there, he assure to people that whenever they will call him, he will come to pay my tributes.
Giving a new spin to the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly, Malik had dropped a bombshell by his remarks during a pre-convocation academic conclave of ITM University in Gwalior on Saturday.
However, later in the evening, he issued a clarification and said, “There was no pressure or any kind of intervention from the Centre in the entire matter and some news channels are misinterpreting the statement and putting them out of context.”
There was no immediate reaction from the Centre, who said history would have remembered him as a 'dishonest man' if he had asked Lone, the leader of the People's Conference, to form the government.
As the comments by Malik created a flutter, the chiefs of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and National Conference --Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, both former chief ministers--complimented the governor for not taking "instructions" from Delhi thereby stopping the installation of a government of the "BJP and its proxies".
Malik abruptly dissolved the Assembly after the PDP staked claim to form a government with the backing of arch rival NC and the Congress. Mehbooba claimed the support of 57 MLAs in the 87-member Assembly.
The PDP claim was quickly followed by another bid from the People's Conference which claimed the support of the BJP and 18 legislators from other parties. The BJP had 25 MLAs while the strength of the People's Conference was 2.
The governor noted that Lone had been saying he had sent his letter on WhatsApp and Mufti said she tweeted staking claim for government formation.
"I never knew that governments were formed on WhatsApp and tweet messages. Staking claim for the formation of the government are not made on WhatsApp,"he said.
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