New Delhi:
Former Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla was on Tuesday night appointed the brand new Governor of Manipur – the place periodic clashes between the Meitei neighborhood and the Kuki tribes have simmered for greater than a yr – changing Anusuiya Uikey.
The President additionally appointed Governors for 4 different states.
VK Singh, a retired Army Chief and a former minister within the earlier Narendra Modi-led authorities, has been appointed the brand new Mizoram Governor.
There has been a swap of states for Governors of Kerala and Bihar – Arif Mohammed, the Kerala Governor, is now the Governor of Bihar, and Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Bihar, is now accountable for Kerala.
The President has accepted the resignation of Raghubar Das because the Governor of Odisha. Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati, Governor of Mizoram, has been appointed because the Governor of Odisha in his place.
A governor is the constitutional head of a state and has comparable powers and features on the state stage as these of the President of India on the central stage.
Experienced Campaigner
Ajay Kumar Bhalla, now Manipur Governor, is a 1984-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre who was appointed the Union Home Secretary in August 2019 and remained within the put up for practically half a decade, till 2024. Experts stated his tenure on the Home Ministry will serve him nicely in his new posting in a state that’s going by a risky interval.
Governor-Kerala Government Row
For the second yr in a row, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his council of ministers skipped the Christmas celebrations hosted by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan final Tuesday, stated sources.
The Governor, who now strikes to Bihar, has been at loggerheads with the ruling CPI(M) and its scholar wing SFI over appointments made by him to some universities of the state in his capability as Chancellor of universities.
His latest appointment of vice-chancellors to technical and digital universities within the state had invited sharp criticism from the CPI(M) which alleged that the Governor bypassed the High Court’s directive in making these appointments.
Army Chief To Governor
Gen (Retd) VK Singh, a former Minister of State for Civil Aviation and likewise for Road Transport and Highways, represented Ghaziabad constituency for 2 phrases since 2014. Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the previous minister stated he has “made a tough however considerate determination” and won’t contest the polls. “I need to take my vitality and time in new instructions, the place I can serve my nation otherwise,” he had stated in March.