• President of India Appoints News Governers; Gulab Chand Kataria To Be Next Assam Governor

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    President of India Appoints News Governers; Gulab Chand Kataria To Be Next Assam Governor
    Professor Jagdish Mukhi is the current Governor of the northeastern state...

    Digital Desk: Gulab Chand Kataria, the leader of the opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly, will become the next Governor of Assam in a notable reshuffle.

    Professor Jagdish Mukhi is the current governor of the northeastern state, having taken office on October 10, 2017.

    Gulab Chand Kataria is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). From 2014 to 2018, he was Rajasthan's home minister. He is a senior BJP leader who also serves on the party's central working committee. 

    Kataria accomplishes being the current Assam Governor at a time when other states' governorships are also newly appointed.

    According to sources, as many as 13 Indian states will have new governors.

    Meanwhile, reports claim that Droupadi Murmu, the President of India, has accepted the resignation of Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. 

    Here's the full list of new appointments that have been made by the President of India: 

    1| Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, PVSM, UYSM, YSM (Retired) as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh

    2|Shri Lakshman Prasad Acharya as Governor of Sikkim

    3| Shri C.P. Radhakrishnan as Governor of Jharkhand

    4| Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla as Governor of Himachal Pradesh

    5| Shri Gulab Chand Kataria as Governor of Assam

    6|Shri Justice (Retd.) S. Abdul Nazeer as Governor of Andhra Pradesh

    7| Shri Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh appointed as Governor of Chhattisgarh

    8|Sushri Anusuiya Uikye, Governor of Chhattisgarh appointed as Governor of Manipur

    9|Shri La. Ganesan, Governor of Manipur appointed as Governor of Nagaland

    10| Shri Phagu Chauhan, Governor of Bihar appointed as Governor of Meghalaya

    11| Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Himachal Pradesh appointed as Governor of Bihar

    12| Shri Ramesh Bais, Governor of Jharkhand appointed as Governor of Maharashtra

    13|  Brig. (Dr.) Shri B.D. Mishra (Retd.), Governor of Arunachal Pradesh appointed as Lt. Governor of Ladakh


    "The following appointments shall take effect on the dates they take charge of their respective offices," according to a statement.