Won’t lose job, but threat of transfer looms, says Satyapal Malik

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik, who dissolved the state assembly last week and courted controversy over his remarks on government formation on Wednesday, set off another round of speculation on Thursday with a comment that the threat of transfer looms over him.

Malik was addressing a function in remembrance of Congress leader and former minister Girdhari Lal Dogra, on his 31stdeath anniversary. Dogra is also finance minister Arun Jaitley’s father-in-law.

“As long as I am here I will definitely come here. You don’t know when will I be transferred. I will not lose my job, but threat of transfer remains,” said Malik, while addressing the gathering. J&K Governor made the remarks in presence of former deputy chief minister of J&K and BJP leader Nirmal Singh.


The transfer remark comes three days after Malik at a university function in Gwalior said BJP government in New Delhi wanted Sajjad Lone of People’s Conference to be the next chief minister of the state.

“I returned to the state to be part of this very important function as Dograji was a great leader,” said Malik J&K Governor has taken radical decision since he assumed office in August this year and is extremely vocal than his predecessor.

During the function at Gwalior, Malik said had he looked towards New Delhi and followed what they wanted, history would have remembered him as a dishonest man.

Malik has also triggered a storm, by declaring J&K Bank as a PSU and bringing it under RTI.