Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Tuesday saidthat the ‘government’ orders being circulated on social media in Kashmir frompast few days were invalid.
“There has been no valid order by the government. All theorders are invalid,” Governor Malik said on the sidelines of a function atSKICC in Srinagar.
He said that rumors spread like wildfire in Kashmir.
“If any small incident happens in Lal Chowk, I get news atGovernor House that a blast has occurred in Lal Chowk. Such is the rumourmongering in Kashmir,” he said.
He appealed to the people not to pay heed to rumors saying that everything was fine and normal in the state.
Since past few days various government orders are beingcirculated on social media adding to the speculation that the Centre might haveplans to do away with Article 35A.
These speculations have dominated the discourse in Kashmirover the past few days after the Centre decided to rush an additional 100companies of central armed paramilitary forces to the valley.