Radha Krishna Mathur appointed first Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh

Almost two months after the official bifurcation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, Radha Krishna Mathur has been appointed as the first Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh. Meanwhile, Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu Kashmir and Satya Pal Malik, Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, is transferred and appointed as the Governor of Goa.

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Mathur is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tripura cadre from 1977 batch. He retired as the Chief Information Commissioner of India (CIC) in November 2018. Apart from the Central Government, the IAS officer has served the Tripura governments as the Chief Secretary of Tripura, Principal Secretary of Finance, and Principal Secretary of Agriculture. RK Mathur was appointed as the Chief Secretary of Tripura in December 2003. In 2016, he was given the charge as the Chief Information Commissioner of India (CIC).

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Parliament revoked Article 370 and 35A

The Government had revoked Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and proposed that the State be bifurcated into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The Jammu & Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019, strips Jammu and Kashmir's status of a State and converts it into a Union Territory with the legislature and carves out Ladakh region as a UT without legislature. It was passed in a division pressed by the opposition with 125 votes in favour and 61 against, and an NCP member abstained in the Rajya Sabha. It was then passed by a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha on the next day, making it law.

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(With inputs from ANI)