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In 1984, he was rewarded with the position of J&K governor, paving the way for a role which brought about a dramatic rupture of links with Congress, endeared him to BJP and defined his legacy.
Lives are full of twists and turns but only a few represent the kind of turnaround that marked Jagmohan s journey, with the bureaucrat-turned-politician going from being a close member of Sanjay Gandhi s crew which was blamed for Emergency excesses to being a saffron icon who, as J&K governor, took the bold, if hugely controversial, decision to dissolve the state assembly when Pakistan-fuelled insurgency had threatened to overwhelm the government machinery.
It is also a story of the opportunities that India offered post-independence to talented and ambitious youth who escaped the communal pogrom in what now forms Pakistan to build their lives from scratch. Born Jagmohan Malhotra in Hafizabad in Pakistan, the former Union minister started off as the third personal assistant to former Punjab CM, the legendary Partap Singh Kairon. His meticulous work caught the attention of his seniors and fetched him a promotion to the Provincial Civil Service.