Pakistan, Aug. 9 -- Erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (in India-held Kashmir) has witnessed yet another political upheaval, when former bureaucrat Girish Chandra Murmu was overnight replaced with ace politician Manoj Sinha as the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory. If media reports are to be believed, Murmu was summoned to New Delhi, reportedly due to his candid remarks on restoration of high speed internet and elections in IHK. He was the first Lieutenant Governor of the newly transformed Union Territory in the IHK. Now, a 61-year-old technocrat and former union minister, Manoj Sinha, has been brought in as second Lieutenant Governor.

Manoj Sinha was sworn in as the new lieutenant governor, the first political leader to take ...