Former Union Minister Manoj Sinha is set to become the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir after President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation of Girish Chandra Murmu, reported ANI.

Girish Chandra Murmu announced his resignation on August 5, which marked the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.  

The 60-year-old former IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre had on October 29 last year taken over as the first LG of the union territory after the state of Jammu and Kashmir was sliced into two UTs, the other one being Ladakh.

Former Minister of Communications, Manoj Sinha is a three-time Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP) member of the Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing Ghazipur.