Farooq Khan, an adviser to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, submitted his resignation on Sunday and was set to be given an "important assignment" in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the first Assembly elections in the Union Territory, officials said in Jammu.
A retired IPS officer who was instrumental in breaking the backbone of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, Mr. Khan had earlier served as a national secretary of the BJP and held various posts in the party's minority cell.
The 67-year-old is likely to be assigned the responsibility of preparing the party for the first Assembly elections in the Union Territory.
