New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir will get a new Governor as the Centre has decided not to continue with NN Vohra, according to NDTV.
Mr Vohra, 82, who has handled the charge of Jammu and Kashmir for more than a decade, will not be given another term. Search is on for a new face and one of the contenders is former home secretary and current Comptroller and Auditor General Rajiv Mehrishi, NDTV reported.
Jammu and Kashmir has been under Governor’s Rule since June 20, after the BJP ended its coalition government with Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party or PDP, saying it was “untenable” to continue because of security concerns and rising terrorism.
Sources said the Centre and Mr Vohra do not see eye to eye on the formation of a new government in Jammu and Kashmir. The Centre is keen on it, but Mr Vohra, who had handled the state four times between governments, is not ready to comply, NDTV repoorted .
A senior functionary of the home ministry said, “At this late stage he is not ready to accommodate certain decisions”.
The official said Mr Vohra does not want to become another Jagmohan. In 1984, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had asked sitting governor BK Nehru to remove the Farooq Abdullah government. When he resisted, he was replaced by Jagmohan, who made it possible for GM Shah to become the new Chief Minister of the state.
The trigger for the Centre’s decision, however, was a disagreement over Article 35A of the Constitution. The article — which allows the state government to define who is a permanent resident of the state and provide them with special privileges – is an extremely sensitive issue for Kashmiris, who see it as a matter of self-determination.
