On the evening of November 21, mere minutes after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti had staked her claim to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir, state governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved the legislative assembly. With verbal support from the National Conference (NC) and the Congress, Mehbooba had first faxed her letter to the governor, and later tweeted it as the fax machine at Raj Bhavan was not working. Soon after, Sajjad Gani Lone of the People’s Conference, who was in London, followed suit, tweeting a letter with his own claim, which he had sent to the governor’s personal secretary when there was no response from the fax machine.