President Droupadi Murmu appointed new governors to nine states on Sunday, including the conflict-affected Manipur. Lakshman Prasad Acharya, who previously served as the governor of Sikkim, has been appointed as Assam’s governor with the additional charge of Manipur, replacing Anusuiya Uikey, who has held the position since February 2023.
Om Prakash Mathur, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Rajasthan, will take over as the governor of Sikkim. Meanwhile, Gulab Chand Kataria has been moved from Assam to Punjab and appointed as the administrator of Chandigarh, succeeding Banwarilal Purohit, whose resignation was accepted by the president. Purohit had served as the governor of Punjab and administrator of Chandigarh since August 2021.
Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde, former Maharashtra Assembly speaker and BJP leader, has been appointed as the governor of Rajasthan. Jishnu Dev Varma, who served as Tripura’s deputy chief minister from 2018 to 2023, has been named the governor of Telangana, a state currently governed by the Congress.
Santosh Kumar Gangwar, a former Union minister and eight-time Lok Sabha MP, has been appointed as the governor of Jharkhand. CP Radhakrishnan, who was the governor of Jharkhand with additional charge of Telangana, has been reassigned to Maharashtra. He will also hold the additional charge of Puducherry as its lieutenant governor. Maharashtra and Jharkhand are set to hold Assembly elections later this year.
K Kailashnathan, a retired Indian Administrative Service officer and former chief principal secretary to Narendra Modi during his tenure as Gujarat’s chief minister, has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
CH Vijayashankar, a Karnataka BJP leader who briefly joined Congress before returning to the BJP in 2019, has been appointed as the governor of Meghalaya. Ramen Deka, a former MP from Assam’s Mangaldoi, has been appointed as the governor of Chhattisgarh.
The appointments will take effect upon the new governors assuming their respective offices, as stated in a press communique from the president’s secretariat.