Satya Pal Malik, former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and several other states and a veteran politician, has died. He was 79. Mr Malik had been suffering from kidney-related ailments and was under treatment at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
A Jat leader from Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, Mr Malik started his political journey as a student leader and was elected an MLA of Chaudhary Charan Singh’s Bharatiya Kranti Dal in 1974. He served as a Rajya Sabha MP and later as Janata Dal’s Lok Sabha MP from Aligarh. In the coming years, he switched to the Congress, then to the Lok Dal and then to Samajwadi Party.
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