Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi replaces Bose in Bengal ahead of polls
With Assembly elections in West Bengal round the corner, Governor C V Ananda Bose resigned Thursday citing “personal reasons”.
He was replaced by Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi who had been at loggerheads with the DMK-led government in the state.
With Ravi being sent to West Bengal, Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will administer Tamil Nadu for the time being.
As part of major gubernatorial appointments announced by President Droupadi Murmu Thursday night, Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) was named the new Bihar Governor, taking over from Arif Mohammed Khan.
Taranjit Singh Sandhu, retired diplomat and a former Ambassador to the US, will be the new Lt Governor of Delhi, replacing Vinai Kumar Saxena who was posted to Ladakh as Lt Governor.
Ladakh Lt Governor Kavinder Gupta, a former Deputy Chief Minister in the BJP-PDP government in the erstwhile state of J&K, will be the new Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla will move from Himachal Pradesh to Telangana. He will take over from Jishnu Dev Varma who was appointed Governor of Maharashtra, according to a communique from Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Bose, who was appointed West Bengal Governor in November 2022, could be given another responsibility, and the top leadership was kept in the loop over the resignation, sources in the government said.
BJP sources said Bose’s exit was seen to have been triggered by a bid to keep him from becoming a vantage point for the TMC to attack the BJP during the upcoming state Assembly elections.