Girish Chandra Murmu took oath as the lieutenant governor ofthe Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday as J-K officially lost itsstatehood and was spilt into two UTs- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at midnight Wednesday.
Murmu was sworn in by chief justice of the Srinagar high court Gita Mittal in a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan.
The UT of Jammu and Kashmir will have a legislature like Puducherry with an elected legislative assembly and a chief minister.
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