The Jammu and Kashmir Governor has decided not to celebrate Holi at Raj Bhavan this year.

A Raj Bhavan spokesperson has informed that as a mark of respect towards the CRPF personnel who lost their lives in a suicide attack at Pulwama on February 14,2019, Governor Satya Pal Malik has decided that there will be no official celebrations related to the ‘Holi’ festival at Raj Bhavan.

Governor has conveyed that he too would go without the Holi celebrations this year in memory of the “martyrs”.

On February 14, a bomber used an explosive-laden vehicle and rammed into a CRPF convoy at Lethpora in Awantipora area of south Kashmir, the attack claimed the life of 49 paramilitary men and dozens were left injured.