Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan), Oct 18: In the backdrop of terrorists killing civilians in Kashmir, Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik, who has earlier served as the governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, said terrorists could not enter a radius of 50-100 kms around Srinagar during his tenure.
Malik, who was in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu for an event on Sunday, called the situation “very sad and painful”.
“When I was there, there was no stone pelting, no (terrorist) recruitment and nobody was dying. Terrorists could not enter a radius 50-100 km around Srinagar, now they are killing people in Srinagar and that too the poor. I cannot analyse the situation but it is a very sad and painful thing to happen,” Malik told reporters on Sunday.
Malik, a Jat leader from Uttar Pradesh, had served as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir from August 2018 to October 2019. Article 370 was abrogated during his tenure on August 5, 2019. He became the Governor of Meghalaya in August 2020.
The comments come in the wake of a number of killings of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir. Around 11 civilians have been killed in Kashmir by terrorists over the last one month.
On Sunday, terrorists had opened fire at the labourers at Vanpoh in Kulgam district, killing two.
Those murdered include the principal and a teacher of a government school in Srinagar’s Eidgah area, Supinder Kour and Deepak Chand, 70-year-old Makhan Lal Bindroo, a prominent businessman and the owner of a pharmacy in Srinagar, a street vendor from Bihar Virendra Paswan, and a cab driver Mohd Shafi Lone. UNI
