2 Facts About Satya Pal Malik

1. In 2004, Satya Pal Malik joined the BJP and unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections, losing to former prime minister Charan Singh's son Ajit Singh.

2. On Thursday, Satya Pal Malik claimed he had missed Mehbooba's faxed letter because there was nobody in his office to receive it as Wednesday was a holiday in the state on the occasion of Id-e-Milad.