Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday hinted that he may be shifted out of the state following his remarks that the central government wanted to see Peoples Conference leader Sajad Lone as the Chief Minister.
Addressing a function to mark the death anniversary of senior Congress leader Girdhari Lal Dogra here, Malik said: “As long as I am here, I’m here. It is not in my hands. But the threat of transfer is there.
“I don’t know when I will be transferred from here. I will not lose my job, but as long as I am here, I assure the people that whenever you call me, I will come”, he added.
Following his remarks, Raj Bhawan issued a statement saying that while dissolving the state Assembly, the Governor took an objective and impartial decision.“There was no pressure or any kind of intervention from the Centre in the entire matter and some news channels are misinterpreting the Governor’s statement and putting things out of context to convey that there was pressure from the central government,” the statement said.