J&K placed under Governors rule

JAMMU: After receiving concurrence from the President of India, Governor N.N. Vohra issued a Proclamation Saturday to impose Governors Rule in the State.
The Raj Bhavan spokesperson stated that consequent to the sudden passing away of Chief Minister Shri Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on 7th January 2016, the process to form government had commenced and intimations were still awaited about the respective positions of PDP and BJP.
Considering the likelihood of some more time being taken before government can be formed, with the approval of the President of India, Governors Rule has been imposed in the State with effect from 8th January, 2016, under Section 92(1) of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir.
The state had to be put under Governor’s rule in view of the reluctance of Mufti’s daughter Mehbooba to take oath during the mourning period though her party has already conveyed to the governor that 28 MLAs of the PDP legislature party backed her for the Chief Minister’s post. Sayeed died on Thursday after a brief illness and since then there is a constitutional vacuum.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister’s post was left vacant after the incumbent Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away due to multiple organ failure. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday had said that it would take at least four days for the swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Minister.

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