New Delhi ∙ The President appointed 6 people including former Supreme Court Justice S. Abdul Nazir as Governors. 4 BJP leaders and former Army Lt. General is also among them. Along with this, the governors of 7 states were also appointed.
Justice S., who was on the Supreme Court benches that gave verdicts in the Ayodhya, demonetisation and triple talaq cases. Abdul Nazir will be appointed as Andhra Pradesh Governor within six weeks of his retirement. Opposition parties including the Congress came out against the appointment.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, Ladakh Lt. Governor R.K. President Draupadi Murmu accepted the resignation of Mathur and others.
Meghalaya and Nagaland will go to polls this month. Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi’s term had ended. He was also in charge of Nagaland from 2021. CP Radhakrishnan, former Coimbatore MP, was BJP’s Kerala chief. Kaivalya Patnaik was the commander of the Army’s Northern Command. Laxman Acharya is Uttar Pradesh MLC. Shivprasad Shukla is a former minister and UP BJP vice president. Gulab Chand Kataria, who is also the former state home minister, is the leader of the opposition in Rajasthan.
New Governors:
∙ Justice S. Abdul Nazir – Andhra Pradesh
Lt. General Kaivalya Trivikram Patnaik – Arunachal Pradesh
∙ Laxman Prasad Acharya – Sikkim
∙ CP Radhakrishnan – Jharkhand
∙ Shiv Pratap Shukla – Himachal Pradesh
∙ Gulab Chand Kataria – Assam
Transferees:
∙ Ramesh Bais – Maharashtra from Jharkhand
∙ Brigadier MD Singh – Arunachal to Ladakh Lt. Governor
∙ Anasuya Uikye – from Chhattisgarh to Manipur
∙ Brij Bhushan Haricharan – Chhattisgarh from Andhra
∙ La Ganesan – Manipur to Nagaland
∙ Fagu Chauhan – from Bihar to Meghalaya
∙ Rajendra Vishwanath Arlakar – from Himachal to Bihar
English Summary: President Droupadi Murmu appoints 6 new governors
