President appoints five new Governors, T.N. BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan gets Telangana
The HinduThe Centre on Sunday appointed new Governors for five States. A communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said President Ram Nath Kovind had appointed new Governors for Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Telangana Former Union Minister, Arif Mohammed Khan, who walked out of the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1986 after it had decided to overturn the Supreme Court’s Shah Bano judgment, was appointed Governor of Kerala along with three other BJP leaders. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been named the Governor of Maharashtra while Tamil Nadu BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan will be the new Governor of Telangana. Former Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya will be the Governor of Himachal Pradesh in place of Kalraj Mishra, who has been given the charge of Rajasthan, replacing incumbent Governor Kalyan Singh. Vidyasagar Rao, while Mr. Dattatreya, who was Labour Minister during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet in the first term, will be replacing Mr. Kalraj Mishra in Himachal Pradesh.