India, Aug. 5 -- Former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik, who passed away on Tuesday after a prolonged spell of hospitalisation, had spoken of alleged security lapses that led to the Pahalgam terror attack in April, in what was purportedly his last interview.

He had called the BJP-led NDA government "shameless" and "cowardly", and attacked PM Narendra Modi directly, as he spoke to The Wire.

Malik was governor of Jammu and Kashmir when the Pulwama terrorist attack took place in 2019. He was the last to hold that post before the state was turned into union territory, and Ladakh was carved out as a separate UT.

He served as governor in Bihar, Meghalaya, Goa and Odisha, too, and later said "serious intelligence failure and security lapses" led...