“Satyapal Malik bravely exposed Pulwama. Farmers are his shield. He must carry on. All farmer organisations are with him,” Balbir Singh Rajewal, a farmers' leader from Punjab, said.
Malik had stood by the farmers during the year-long agitation against the now repealed farm laws.
The former J&K Governor has claimed that after the February 14, 2019, Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to stay silent over some alleged lapses he flagged.