{"id":306205,"date":"2018-11-27T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306205"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:54:54","slug":"centre-would-have-wanted-me-to-appoint-sajad-lone-as-cm-says-jk-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/centre-would-have-wanted-me-to-appoint-sajad-lone-as-cm-says-jk-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre would have wanted me to appoint Sajad Lone as CM, says J&#038;K Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300974 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bihar-governor-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/bihar-governor-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/bihar-governor.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Jammu and Kashmir (J&amp;K) Governor Satya Pal Malik on November 27 triggered a new political controversy saying that the Centre would have wanted him to make Sajad Lone the chief minister of the state, but he didn\u2019t do that as he did not want to go down in history as a dishonest man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">J&amp;K Governor Malik while addressing students of the ITM University said, \u201cIf I&#8217;d turned towards Delhi, I would have had to invite Sajad Lone to form the government and history would have seen me as a dishonest man. That is why I closed that door. Those who want to speak ill of me, they can. But I am convinced that whatever I did was correct.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">People\u2019s Conference party leader Lone had staked the claim on the formation of the J&amp;K Government in alliance with the BJP after a coalition of People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), National Conference (NC) and Congress approached Governor Malik to stake their claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the two coalitions approached the governor to form the government in the state, he announced the dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PDP, NC and Congress termed the decision by the governor as \u201cundemocratic and unconstitutional\u201d; the BJP had backed his decision, saying it was in the best interest of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir (J&amp;K) Governor Satya Pal Malik on November 27 triggered a new political controversy saying that the Centre would have wanted him to make Sajad Lone the chief minister of the state, but he didn\u2019t do that as he did not want to go down in history as a dishonest man. J&amp;K Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[3922,1141,3676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306206,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306205\/revisions\/306206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}