August 13
Jammu Kashmir is likely to have a new governor later this month, when incumbent N.N. Vohra exits office after a 10-year term.
The BJP general secretary Ram Madhav while speaking to ThePrint said that, “I assume there will be a new governor soon.”
The tenure of the governor gets over in a couple of weeks. The government is obviously thinking about the future steps amid speculations.
The state assembly has been in suspended animation since the BJP pulled out of the coalition government in late June.
The Maharashtra governor C. Vidyasagar Rao, a committed activist of the RSS for several decades, and Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) and former home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi are being touted as possible successors to Vohra.
In the 87-member J&K assembly, the BJP is currently the single-largest party with 28 MLAs, followed by the BJP (25), the National Conference (15) and the Congress (12).
Madhav, the BJP’s pointperson for Kashmir, was in Srinagar last week to persuade the PDP to support the NDA’s candidate in the election for the post of deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha.