In a major reshuffle, the President of India Droupadi Murmu reshuffled the governors of several states. Governors of Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh were changed along with the Lt Governors of Puducherry and Chandigarh.
K Kailashnathan (Retd IAS: 1979: GJ), Gujarat’s most influential bureaucrat, has been appointed Lt Governor of Puducherry, effective from the date he assumes office.
President accepts Banwarilal Purohit’s resignation
The President of India has also accepted Banwarilal Purohit’s resignation as the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
The newly-appointed governors are:
- Rajasthan- Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde
- Telangana- Jishnu Dev Varma
- Sikkim- Om Prakash Mathur
- Jharkhand- Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Chhattisgarh- Ramen Deka
- Meghalaya- C H Vijayashankar
- Maharashtra- C.P. Radhakrishnan (earlier Governor of Jharkhand with Additional Charge of Telangana)
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The appointment of Kailashnathan as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry demonstrates that he has been crucial to the New Delhi establishment since May 2014. It should be noted that after retiring as Additional Chief Secretary (Gujarat) in 2013, he was smoothly appointed as Chief Principal Secretary to the CM and worked under four CMs: Narendra Modi, Anandiben Patel, Vijay Rupani, and Bhupendra Patel. After Modi’s move to New Delhi as Prime Minister in May 2024, KK continued to serve as a link between Ahmedabad and Delhi.
