‘Whether I live Or Not…’: Ex-J&K Governor Satyapal Malik Says He’s In ICU, Attacks BJP

A day after giving an update about his health while being admitted to a hospital due to kidney problems, former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik on Sunday said.

That he was in a very serious condition and shared a contact number to get in touch with him. “Condition is very serious. Contact number – 96105 44972,” Malik posted on X. On Friday, he had said on X

that he had been hospitalised for the last month due to kidney problems and added that he was doing well but had to be shifted to the ICU.

“I have been admitted to the hospital for almost a month now, battling a kidney-related illness. I was feeling better since the day before yesterday, but today I had to be shifted to the ICU again. My condition is becoming increasingly critical,” Malik said. Expressing uncertainty about his life, he said he wanted to tell the “truth” to the nation, and claimed that the BJP government at the Centre was trying to defame him.

“Whether I live or not, I want to tell the truth to my fellow countrymen — when I was serving as a Governor, I was offered bribes of Rs 150-150 crores. But like my political mentor, the farmers’ leader Late Chaudhary Charan Singh ji, I continued to work with honesty, and no one could ever shake my integrity,” he claimed.

“The government is trying to scare me with the threat of a CBI inquiry and is looking for excuses to trap me in a false chargesheet. In the case they want to frame me for, I was the one who had cancelled the tender myself. I had personally informed the Prime Minister about the corruption involved, and after informing him, I cancelled the tender. It was only after I was transferred that the tender was cleared with someone else’s signature,” the former governor added.

He said that even after holding some of the highest positions in public life, he lived a humble life and is in “debt”.

“The truth is, even after serving the nation for over 50 years and holding some of the highest positions in public life, I still live in a one-room house and am in debt. If I had wealth today, I would have been getting treatment at a private hospital,” Malik said.