‘Why didn’t Satya Pal Malik speak up when he was governor’: Amit Shah on allegations over Pulwama attack

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At a roundtable organised by India Today, Shah said that Malik has not been summoned by CBI because he criticised the Narendra Modi-led government, but because of an ongoing investigation in which he has already been called twice already...

Such peoples credibility must be questioned by the public and media, he said..

When asked if the party questioned choosing Malik for the post of the J&K Governor, Shah replied, He has been working for the party for a very long time he was in my team also once..

Maliks recent claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to stay silent over some alleged lapses he flagged after the February 14, 2019, Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed..

In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Malik, Governor of J&K from August 2018 to October 2019, claimed that the Home Ministry refused to provide five aircraft requisitioned by the CRPF to ferry its personnel which resulted in a large number of security personnel moving by road in a convoy and becoming the target of a deadly terrorist ambush...