Manoj Sinha - the new lieutenant governor of Jammu & Kashmir

BJP veteran and former central minister Manoj Sinha was appointed lieutenant governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
He will be the first politician to be appointed LG in the newly formed Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory.
Manoj Sinha lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Ghazipur to BSP's Afzal Ansari.
Sinha was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996, 1999 and 2014.
Sinha was also in contention for the UP chief minister’s post but BJP chose Yogi Adityanath.
Sinha served as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and Minister of State for Railways in the previous term of the Narendra Modi government.
In the first week of July 2016, when Sinha assumed the charge of the Telecom Ministry, the immediate task at hand was to achieve the target of BharatNet by connecting 1 lakh villages by broadband Internet by end of December 2017.
Sinha, has a B. Tech in civil engineering from the Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi.
Born on July 1, 1959 in Mohanpura in the district of Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.
Sinha did his schooling under the UP board of education before going to IT-BHU.

Current Affairs 17 August 2023