Jammu.Former union minister and senior BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh, Manoj Sinha, was on Thursday appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.A communique issued by the President’s secretariat said that the resignation of Girish Chandra Murmu as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir has been accepted. Earlier the former LG had resigned from the post Lt.Governer J & K, the overnight act which took many people in the valley by surprise.
The communique issued by the President’s press secretary Ajay Kumar said “the President has been pleased to appoint Shri Manoj Sinha, to be the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir with the date he assumes charge of his office” in place of Murmu.
The 61-year-old Sinha was born on July 1, 1959 in Mohanpura of Ghazipur district of eastern UP and has been actively involved in working for the backward villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996 and repeated the term in 1999.
Nasir Yousufii