Maharashtra Gets New Governor; Biswa Bhusan Harichandan Shifted To Chhattisgarh
Bhubaneswar: Governor of Andhra Pradesh Biswa Bhusan Harichandan has been sent to Chhattisgarh as its nominal executive head with President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday approving reshuffles and new appointments in 12 states on Sunday.
A senior leader of the BJP, Harichandan took charge as Governors of Andhra Pradesh in 2019.
With Murmu accepting the resignation of Bhagat Singh Koshyari, following a recent controversy over his comment on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais has been appointed as the new governor of Maharashtra. Koshyari had last month told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he wished to step down from the top post and “spend the rest of his life in reading, writing and other leisurely activities”.
OTHER RESHUFFLES
Governor of Arunachal Pradesh: Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, PVSM, UYSM, YSM (Retired)
Governor of Sikkim: Lakshman Prasad Acharya
Governor of Jharkhand: CP Radhakrishnan
Governor of Himachal Pradesh: Shiv Pratap Shukla
Governor of Assam: Gulab Chand Kataria
Governor of Andhra Pradesh: Justice (Retd.) S. Abdul Nazeer, who was part of the Constitution bench that upheld the archaeological report on Ayodhya
Governor of Manipur: Anusuiya Uikye
Governor of Nagaland: La. Ganesan
Governor of Meghalaya: Phagu Chauhan
Governor of Bihar: Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
The President also appointed a new Lieutenant Governor for the Union Territory of Ladakh. While accepting the resignation of Radha Krishnan Mathur, she appointed Brig. (Dr.) BD Mishra (Retd), Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, as Lt Governor of Ladakh, an official release said.
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