That the Centre was preparing for a more direct political engagement in Jammu & Kashmir was evident from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address, in which he promised that the long overdue panchayat polls would be held before the end of the year. The appointment of Satya Pal Malik as the new governor of the state—the first career politician since 1967 to hold that office—is clearly a move in that direction.
A Jat from western Uttar Pradesh, who replaced President Ram Nath Kovind as the Bihar governor in 2017, 72-year-old Malik has been associated with various political groups, including the Congress and Janata Dal, before joining the BJP in 2004. Starting out as a socialist student leader, he was first elected MLA from Baghpat in 1974. He quit the Congress in 1988 to team up with former PM V. P. Singh and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Aligarh a year later. He also served as parliamentary affairs and tourism minister in the V.P. Singh regime.
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