After the resignation of Farooq Khan, the sole advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, there is speculation that assembly elections may be announced here very soon.
Soon after reports that the Union Home Ministry had accepted his resignation, Khan announced that he quit as he wanted to return to active politics “to make his contribution for the welfare of the people”.
Farooq Khan, a prominent Muslim face of the BJP from the Jammu region, joined the party in 2014 and was made the national general secretary in less than a year.
Bharatiya Janata Party sources say that Khan will be given a “very important task” within the organization as the party’s leadership. Jammu and Kashmir The preparations for the assembly elections have already started.
“If you see, our leadership in Jammu and Kashmir has already started holding rallies in the union territory as we look forward to form the government in the union territory on our own. Farooq Sahab’s return to active politics in Jammu and Kashmir will further boost the party’s prospects, especially in Muslim-dominated areas of Poonch, Rajouri and erstwhile Doda district,” a senior BJP leader, requesting anonymity, told News18. Told.
While it is too early to say what responsibility will be assigned to Farooq Khan, there is talk within the party’s local unit that he may be given a “key role” as being a Muslim he will be acceptable to the voters of Kashmir, and Jammu Being from the region, he will be equally acceptable to the voters of Jammu.
A recipient of the President’s Medal for Gallantry, Bravery and Distinguished Service, Farooq Khan is credited with creating the Distinguished Special Task Force (SFT) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, later renamed as the Special Operations Group (SOG).
Formed on the lines of elite commando forces, the force has since been responsible for crushing the backbone of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in the Kashmir Valley, eliminating many fanatics and most wanted. terrorists,
The former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after his retirement in 2013, was made the national general secretary in 2015, was appointed as the administrator of Lakshadweep in 2016, Jammu in 2019 and returned to Kashmir, where he was appointed as an advisor to the then Governor SP Malik, a post he was reappointed during the tenure of Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu and his successor Manoj Sinha.
Khan belongs to Dogri speaking Punjabi Muslim family. His father was also a police officer, while his grandfather, Colonel Peer Mohammad, was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the party’s first state president in Jammu and Kashmir.
Khan was also part of several major anti-terrorist operations, including the 1996 exercise to clear the Hazratbal Dargah of terrorists hiding inside. He was also part of the operation against terrorists who attacked the Raghunath Temple and Panjbaktar Temple in Jammu in 2002.
Khan was also part of controversies when he was suspended for two years for his role in the 2003 Pathribal fake encounter case in which five people were killed and the terrorist responsible for the killing of 36 Sikhs in Chhattisgarhpora in the year 2000. was contracted.
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