Satya Pal Malik: Dissolved J&k Assembly to avoid ‘unholy alliance’

A day after dissolving the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly, Governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday asserted that he did not want the formation of a government by the ‘unholy alliance’.

Talking to the reporters, Governor Satya Pal Malik said, “These are the forces that are against democracy at the grass root level. Once they felt that situation was slipping out of their hands they formed an unholy alliance to form the Government.”

He also rejected allegations of favouring the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre saying, “I am not on the side of any party. I am with the people in the Valley and want good for them.”

On Wednesday, Satya Pal Malik dissolved the Jammu and Kashmir assembly after claims to form the government in the state was made by People’s Conference leader Sajad Lone and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti.

In response to the claims made by Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Lone, Governor Malik said that his decision to dissolve the Assembly was in the interest of the State.

“I have been receiving complaints for past 15 days of horse-trading and that Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are being threatened. Mehbooba Ji herself complained that her MLAs are being threatened. The other party said there is planning of distribution of money. I could not have allowed this to happen,” he had said.

“I have been saying it since day one of my appointment as Governor that I am not in favour of any govt formed in the state with underhand defection and horse trading. I would instead want that elections are held and selected government rules the state,” the Governor had stated.

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