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| Governor N N Vohra on his way out | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 17: Former bureaucrat N N Vohra is on his way out as Governor of the Jammu and Kashmir State amidst reports that the Union Home Ministry has taken a final decision in this regard.
The ongoing second tenure of Mr Vohra, who was appointed as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for a fresh five-year term e on April 13, 2013, was to complete in 2018. He had taken over as Governor of the state in 2008 when the agitation over land use in Amarnath had led to heightened tensions and collapse of then Ghulam Nabi Azad led Congress-PDP Government.
According to the highly placed official sources, the Union Home Ministry has finalized the decision regarding replacement of Governor N N Vohra with some person of ruling BJP choice for long term strategies in the highly sensitive militancy infested State.
The Home Ministry has also shortlisted some names as would be successor of Mr Vohra and a more clear picture is likely to emerge in next few days.
Even as sources informed that Mr Vohra has himself desired to be relieved as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on 'health grounds', sources said that the ruling BJP and National Security Advisor Ajit Davol were already mulling to replace him before the end of this year.
A retired IAS officer, who served as Union Home Secretary during the peak of militancy in Punjab and beginning of the ongoing insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Vohra was appointed as Interlocutor on Kashmir by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before his nomination as Governor of the State during UPA government.
Soon after the BJP Government came in power at Centre last year, Mr Vohra had offered to resign as Governor of the State but Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to continue in view of his close rapport with Hurriyat leaders. However, even after the BJP came to power in State in alliance with PDP, there was no progress with respect to talks with separatist and this was the main reason pleaded by NSA for replacement of Mr Vohra, sources explained. |
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