Prez appoints 5 new guvs, L-G
NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind announced on Saturday the appointment of five new governors and a Lt governor with Banwarilal Purohit taking charge of the constitutional post in Tamil Nadu, where a political turmoil is brewing due to a power struggle within the ruling AIADMK.
BJP leader Satya pal Malik was made the new occupant of Raj Bhavan in Patna while current Andaman and Nicobar Island Lt governor, Jagdish Mukhi, was appointed Assam governor. Former chief of naval staff, Admiral (Retd) DK Joshi, was announced as Mukhi’s replacement in Port Blair. The President also named Brigadier (Retd)BDM is hr a will be the new governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Gang aP ra sad of Meg hal a ya.
Before the latest set of appointment, Maharashtra governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao was holding the additional charge of Tamil Na du. P ur oh it, the incumbent governor of Assam, was a two-term Congress MP from Nagpur before joining the BJP in 1990s. He is credited with the revival of ‘The Hitavada’, an English daily founded by Ma hat am a Gandhi’ s mentor Go pal Krishna Gokh ale.
Malik, a former member of parliament and BJP’s current
national vice-president, will move into the Patna’s Raj Bhawan, which became vacant after Kovind shifted to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Admiral( Retd)J os hi, the new LG of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, commanded the Vizagbased eastern fleet of the navy and has received a number of gallantry awards in his carrer.
Assam’s new governor Prof
Jagdish Mukhi is an alumnus of University of Delhi’s SRCC. He took to active politics during the Emergency and was a multipletime MP from New Delhi’ sJ anak P uri. He also held the portfolios of finance, planning, excise and taxation and higher education in the Delhi government and was leader of opposition in Delhi assembly from 1998 to 2008.
Former member of Bi h ar leg is-
lat ive council and new Meg hala ya governor, Gang aP ra sad, had served as an MLC in the state for 18 years.
Brig (Retd) BD Mishra, the new governor of A run ac hal Pradesh, was the Commander of NS G (Black Cat Command os) Counter Hijack Task Force that successfully executed the rescue operation after the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft in 1993.