Today on Wednesday, Pranab Mukherjee, President of India has appointed four new governors for the country. The list includes former Union Minister Najma Heptulla who will be the governor of Manipur. The other names of this latest list of governors are V. P. Singh Badnore for Punjab and Banwarilal Purohit for Assam.
Najma Heptulla is the one who resigned from her post of Union minister for Ministry of Minority Affairs on 12th of July just after a week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the increase and reshuffling of the council of ministers. According to this new rule, every leader in BJP who is above 75 years of age will not be officially allowed to hold any post in the government. Heptulla became the first victim of this rule as she turned 76 this year.
Now she will be replacing V. Shamuganathan who is the governor of Meghalaya and had an extra responsibility as Manipur’s governor as well. Shamuganathan has been Manipur’s governor since last September.
On this matter, the Union Government stated that, “The President has been pleased to make the following appointments, Banwarilal Purohit as the governor of Assam, Najma A. Heptulla as the governor of Manipur, V.P. Singh Badnore as the governor of Punjab, Jagdish Mukhi as the lieutenant- governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The appointments will take effect from the dates the incumbents assume charge of their respective offices.”
Out of one lieutenant-governor and three governors selected by the President Pranab Mukherjee, assembly elections are outstanding in two states, in Manipur and Punjab.
V.P Singh Badnore, who comes from Rajasthan was a member of both the state assembly and Parliament, and has been associated with BJP since the days of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS). After being an element of Legislative Assembly for 4 consecutive terms, Badnore finally became a Member of Parliament (MP) in the year 1999.
