Governor Vohra wants to be relieved on 'health
grounds'
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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SRINAGAR, Jul 29: On completion of seven years at Raj Bhawan, Narenda Nath Vohra has desired to be relieved as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on 'health grounds'.
STATE TIMES has learned from highly placed bureaucratic sources that in the middle of the current month, Mr Vohra sent a confidential communication to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking his retirement as the J&K Governor. According to these sources in Government of India, Mr Vohra has pleaded that he may be relieved around completion of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra as he was feeling it hard to discharge his responsibilities on account of "age and health".
Mr Vohra, according to these sources, has been advised to continue till the appointment of his reliever.
A retired IAS officer, who served as Union Home Secretary during the peak of militancy in Punjab and beginning of the armed insurgency and political strife in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Vohra had been appointed by Dr Manmohan Singh's UPA government as its interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir. During his frequent visits to Srinagar, he established liaison with a section of the separatist leaders, trying to rope them in for a political dialogue with New Delhi.
With his communication of condolences to the separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani on the death of latter's daughter Surraya Jan, Mr Vohra attempted to build a bridge with the Hurriyat stalwart. He however failed to evoke a response he expected and also experienced from some of the moderate separatists.
In July 2008, when Governor Lt Gen S.K. Sinha's term ended with the eruption of a regional and communal strife in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by fall of Ghulam Nabi Azad's Congress-PDP coalition, Mr Vohra was appointed as Governor. He functioned as Governor all through the turbulent summers of 2008 and 2010, both times handling the affairs with confidence and aplomb. Assembly elections of 2008 and 2014 besides Lok Sabha elections of 2009 and 2014, as also the Panchayat elections of 2011, were held successfully under Mr Vohra's leadership.
Upon the completion of his first term of 5 years, Mr Vohra was again appointed Governor in 2013. However, after tye change of regime and in the wake of removal and resignation of over a dozen Governors and Lt Governors in 2014, Mr Vohra had offered to quit. According to reports, on more than one occasions, he was advised to continue in office with the assurance that the Narendra Modi government had immediately no intention to appoint a new Governor in the sensitive border State of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
__________
SRINAGAR, Jul 29: On completion of seven years at Raj Bhawan, Narenda Nath Vohra has desired to be relieved as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on 'health grounds'.
STATE TIMES has learned from highly placed bureaucratic sources that in the middle of the current month, Mr Vohra sent a confidential communication to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking his retirement as the J&K Governor. According to these sources in Government of India, Mr Vohra has pleaded that he may be relieved around completion of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra as he was feeling it hard to discharge his responsibilities on account of "age and health".
Mr Vohra, according to these sources, has been advised to continue till the appointment of his reliever.
A retired IAS officer, who served as Union Home Secretary during the peak of militancy in Punjab and beginning of the armed insurgency and political strife in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Vohra had been appointed by Dr Manmohan Singh's UPA government as its interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir. During his frequent visits to Srinagar, he established liaison with a section of the separatist leaders, trying to rope them in for a political dialogue with New Delhi.
With his communication of condolences to the separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani on the death of latter's daughter Surraya Jan, Mr Vohra attempted to build a bridge with the Hurriyat stalwart. He however failed to evoke a response he expected and also experienced from some of the moderate separatists.
In July 2008, when Governor Lt Gen S.K. Sinha's term ended with the eruption of a regional and communal strife in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by fall of Ghulam Nabi Azad's Congress-PDP coalition, Mr Vohra was appointed as Governor. He functioned as Governor all through the turbulent summers of 2008 and 2010, both times handling the affairs with confidence and aplomb. Assembly elections of 2008 and 2014 besides Lok Sabha elections of 2009 and 2014, as also the Panchayat elections of 2011, were held successfully under Mr Vohra's leadership.
Upon the completion of his first term of 5 years, Mr Vohra was again appointed Governor in 2013. However, after tye change of regime and in the wake of removal and resignation of over a dozen Governors and Lt Governors in 2014, Mr Vohra had offered to quit. According to reports, on more than one occasions, he was advised to continue in office with the assurance that the Narendra Modi government had immediately no intention to appoint a new Governor in the sensitive border State of Jammu and Kashmir.
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