{"id":325203,"date":"2020-08-06T03:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325203"},"modified":"2020-08-06T03:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:30:48","slug":"former-union-minister-manoj-sinha-appointed-new-lt-guv-of-jammu-and-kashmir-after-gc-murmu-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-union-minister-manoj-sinha-appointed-new-lt-guv-of-jammu-and-kashmir-after-gc-murmu-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Former union minister Manoj Sinha appointed new Lt Guv of Jammu and Kashmir after GC Murmu resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-325206 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoj-sinha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/manoj-sinha.jpg 381w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/manoj-sinha-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/manoj-sinha-324x400.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/manoj-sinha-340x420.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/>Former union minister Manoj Sinha has been appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, President Ram Nath Kovind&#8217;s office announced on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Rashtrapati Bhawan communique today morning confirmed that Girish Chandra Murmu resignation has been accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sinha&#8217;s appointment came a day after\u00a0GC Murmu abruptly resigned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe President has accepted the resignation of Shri Girish Chandra Murmu as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. The President has been pleased to appoint Shri Manoj Sinha, to be the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office\u00a0vice\u00a0Shri Girish Chandra Murmu,\u201d a statement from President\u2019s office read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reacting to the development, former Jammu and Kashmir\u00a0chief minister Omar Abdullah in a tweet said, \u201cLast night there were one or two names that people were circulating as a done deal &amp; this name wasn\u2019t among them. You can always trust this government to pull an unexpected name out of the hat contrary to anything the \u201csources\u201d had planted earlier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">GC Murmu tendered his resignation on a day India completes one year of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former union minister Manoj Sinha has been appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, President Ram Nath Kovind&#8217;s office announced on Thursday. A Rashtrapati Bhawan communique today morning confirmed that Girish Chandra Murmu resignation has been accepted. Sinha&#8217;s appointment came a day after\u00a0GC Murmu abruptly resigned. \u201cThe President has accepted the resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[13263,1141,10766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325203"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325207,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325203\/revisions\/325207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}