Srinagar, July 13: FORMER INSPECTOR General of J&K Police and BJP leader Farooq Khan, who resigned as administrator of Lakshadweep, has been appointed appointed as Advisor to Governor Satya Pal Malik.
An order issued by the General Administration says Khan has been appointed as Advisor to Governor.
Khan was instrumental in setting up J&K Police’s counter-insurgency unit in the early 1990s. Subsequently, he was moved to Chenab valley to crush militancy in erstwhile Doda district (now split into Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts). Khan retired as Inspector General of Police in 2013. Subsequently, he joined the BJP in Jammu in March 2014 during a rally of the then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. He was made national secretary of the party and was in-charge of BJP’s Minority Morcha and BJP’s affairs in Nagaland. He was later appointed as administrator of Union territory Lakshadweep.
