New Delhi:&nbsp;Governor's rule was imposed in&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir on Friday after political parties failed to&nbsp;muster the requisite number in the 87-member Assembly for&nbsp;staking claim to form the government.
The decision came after Governor N N Vohra submitted a&nbsp;report to the President last night stating that Omar Abdullah&nbsp;had requested to be relieved of the post of being a caretaker&nbsp;Chief Minister.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2014/jul/Omar-Abdullah.jpg" alt="Omar Abdullah" width="650" height="462" /> Omar Abdullah
The report contained some suggestions including the option&nbsp;of a spell of Governor's rule in the wake of no party getting&nbsp;the number required to form a government after the highly-fractured verdict in the Assembly elections, official sources&nbsp;said here.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had last night&nbsp;forwarded the report to the Prime Minister's Office for&nbsp;necessary action.
Governor's rule was imposed in the state under Section 92&nbsp;of Jammu and Kashmir Constitution which allows the Governor to&nbsp;proclaim it in case of failure of Constitutional machinery in&nbsp;the state.
President Pranab Mukherjee is understood to have given&nbsp;his concurrence for Governor's rule which has been imposed in&nbsp;the state for the sixth time since 1977.
Omar had said the state needed a full-time administrator&nbsp;to deal with the situation along the border with Pakistan and&nbsp;providing relief to flood-affected people in the Kashmir&nbsp;Valley.
He was asked to continue as caretaker Chief Minister on&nbsp;December 24 after his resignation in the wake of defeat of his&nbsp;party, National Conference (NC), in the Assembly poll results&nbsp;declared on December 23.
More than a fortnight after the results have been out,&nbsp;neither PDP which emerged as the single largest party with 28&nbsp;seats nor BJP with 25 could get the magic figure of 44 to&nbsp;stake claim to form a government. NC has 15 MLAs while the&nbsp;Congress 12.
The new Government was required to be constituted before&nbsp;January 19 when the term of the current Assembly expires.
Omar's decision may have also hastened the Governor's decision&nbsp;to send a report to the Home Ministry.
The state is witnessing such a stalemate for the second&nbsp;time in 12 years. A similar situation had arisen when Farooq&nbsp;Abdullah had asked the then Governor G C Saxena to relieve him&nbsp;of being a caretaker Chief Minister as PDP and Congress were&nbsp;taking a lot of time in cobbling up numbers to form the&nbsp;government.
Despite intervention by the then Prime Minister Atal&nbsp;Bihari Vajpayee, Abdullah refused to continue as the caretaker&nbsp;Chief Minister and Governor's rule had to be imposed for a&nbsp;fortnight from October 18, 2002.

Governor's rule was imposed in&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir on Friday after political parties failed to&nbsp;muster the requisite number in the 87-member Assembly for&nbsp;staking claim to form the government

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