While the Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister is fully occupied with the long-awaited cabinet expansion, the Lieutenant Governor finds himself equally in a tight spot.

With Sajjan Singh Yadav set to take charge as the J&K Chief Secretary (CS) next month, at least half-a-dozen bureaucrats at top echelons of the Union Territory’s administration will be faced with a peculiar situation. Reason: They happen to be either senior or batchmates of the 1995-batch AGMUT-cadre IAS officer, who will succeed outgoing CS Atal Dulloo.

Apart from them, three more AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territories) cadre IAS officers are either senior or from the same batch as Yadav but currently posted outside J&K.

Of these nine officers, six happen to be from the erstwhile J&K cadre, which got merged with the AGMUT cadre after the state was bifurcated into two UTs in 2019.

Yadav’s posting will likely take effect on November 1.

Retiring CS Dulloo is a 1989-batch IAS officer and almost every officer posted in J&K…