Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik dies

Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik handed away on Tuesday (August 5, 2025). He has additionally served because the Governor of Meghalaya, Goa, Odisha and Bihar.

Malik entered politics within the mid-Sixties impressed by the socialist ideology of Ram Manohar Lohia. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2004 and was appointed its nationwide vice-president in 2012. He was a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s group within the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Belonging to the politically influential Jat group, Malik hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat and likewise has ancestral roots in Haryana.

He had a quick stint with the Congress within the mid-Eighties. Malik was the overall secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha earlier than quitting the occasion in 1987 over the Bofors rip-off. He was one of many founders of the Jan Morcha, which later grew to become the Janata Dal in 1988.

Malik was appointed Bihar Governor in 2017. He was despatched to Jammu and Kashmir in August 2018. He was on the helm when the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir underneath Article 370 was revoked on at the present time in 2019. He was transferred to Goa in October 2019. In simply 9 months, he was moved to Meghalaya. He retired as Meghalaya Governor on October 4, 2022.