BS Koshyari, RSS veteran and a former Chief Minister and MP, was appointed Governor in 2019
New Delhi:
Maharashtra was amongst 12 states to get a brand new Governor as President Droupadi Murmu made essential Constitutional appointments this morning. The President additionally appointed a brand new Lieutenant Governor for the Union Territory of Ladakh.
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Ramesh Bais, former Jharkhand governor, will change Bhagat Singh Koshyari as Maharashtra Governor. Mr Koshyari’s exit from Raj Bhavan has been welcomed by Opposition leaders who’ve accused him of wounding Marathi sentiment together with his controversial remarks on icons.
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Eighty-year-old Koshyari had final month advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he wished to step down from the submit. “Governor Koshyari has expressed his want to spend the remainder of his life in studying, writing and different leisurely actions,” learn a Raj Bhavan assertion.
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An RSS veteran who has served as a Chief Minister and an MP in each Homes of Parliament, Mr Koshyari was appointed Governor in 2019. Throughout his time period, he continuously hit headlines over a number of run-ins with the Uddhav Thackeray authorities and his controversial statements.
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The Uddhav Thackeray-led authorities and the Raj Bhavan clashed on a number of points, together with the reopening of temples after the Covid pandemic, refusal of a state airplane for Mr Koshyari’s go to to Dehradun and a particular Meeting session following the rape and homicide of a lady in Mumbai’s Sakinaka.
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Mr Koshyari sparked a row in November final yr when he mentioned Chhattrapati Shivaji was “an icon of the previous days”. Prime BJP leaders needed to soar into the firefight because the political opposition accused the Governor of insulting the Maratha chief. Previous to that, he courted controversy when he mentioned Maharashtra can have no cash left if Gujaratis and Rajasthanis depart.
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Aaditya Thackeray, former minister and a pacesetter of the Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, welcomed the appointment of the brand new Governor, calling it a “massive win for Maharashtra”. Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Get together additionally welcomed Mr Koshyari’s exit.
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In Ladakh, Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra (Retd) will take over after the President accepted the resignation of Radha Krishna Mathur. The appointment comes amid rising demand for statehood and a particular standing for Ladakh. Leaders of the area have raised environmental issues over the infrastructure push and demanded autonomy that they are saying would assist them convey improvement in a fashion they need.
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Lt. Common Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Retired) will take over as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Lakshman Prasad Acharya as Governor of Sikkim, C P Radhakrishnan as Governor of Jharkhand and Shiv Pratap Shukla as Governor of Himachal Pradesh. Shiv Pratap Shukla is a former Union Minister and an influential Brahmin chief from Uttar Pradesh.
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Additionally, Gulab Chand Kataria has been appointed Governor of Assam, former Supreme Court docket decide Justice S Abdul Nazeer as Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan as Governor of Chhattisgarh and Anusuiya Uikye as Governor of Manipur.
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A sitting MLA with sturdy RSS connections, Mr Kataria was a key contender for the Chief Minister’s submit within the run-up to this yr’s Rajasthan polls. His appointment may very well be seen as a well-thought-out transfer to take away him from the massive race. One other key appointment is that of Justice Nazeer, who was a part of the five-member Structure bench that delivered the unanimous judgment within the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi case in 2019.
