In all, six new appointments have been announced. President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed governors in four states and changed the charge of two.
Om Prakash Mathur, who was the Governor of Sikkim, has been given charge of Keralam, while Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who was the governor of Keralam, has now been appointed as the governor of Tamil Nadu. BJP’s former national general secretary Dushyant Gautam has been appointed as the governor of Sikkim. Sudha Yadav, a member of the BJP parliamentary board, has been appointed as Governor of Karnataka. She is the second woman to have been appointed to the parliamentary board. Her late husband, Sukhbir Singh Yadav, was martyred in the Kargil War.
Mohan Ram, who was a member of the Lok Sabha from Palamu constituency in Jharkhand from 1996 to 2004, has been appointed as governor of Odisha. She earlier represented Mahendragarh in Haryana in the Lok Sabha from 1994 to 2004.
Dr Dhal Singh Bisen has been appointed as the Governor of the poll-bound state of Uttarakhand. Bisen is a former legislator and minister in the Madhya Pradesh government (2003-2005) and was also a member of the state Finance Commission.
