The Mayor said, "The elements backed by Pakistan are behind this. We should all come out on the streets and take a stand as a society that we will not allow this, I appeal to all communities to stand together. Kashmir belongs to people of all religious belief", he said while talking to media here.
In the SMC, some of the councillors owing allegiance to the National Conference (NC) and some independents also voted against him.
The order issued by Home Secretary RK Goyal attached Rath to the office of Commandant General, Home Guards/Civil Defence/SDRF till further orders. Alok Kumar, 1997 IPS batch, will now head the traffic wing of the police.
The reference was to Malik's interview to a news channel in which he had hinted that a foreign-educated person was going to become the mayor of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC).
