Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The central government on Sunday (February 12) appointed six new governors and reshuffled the posts of governors in seven states. President Draupadi Murmu The reshuffle took place after the party accepted the resignations of Bhagat Singh Koshyari as the governor of Maharashtra and Radha Krishnan Mathur as the lieutenant governor of Ladakh. In place of Mathur, Arunachal Pradesh Governor B.D. Mishra has been appointed. Assembly elections are to be held in many of the 13 states in which the government made this change.
Bhagat Singh Koshyari, whose statements during his tenure as the Governor of Maharashtra courted controversy, has been replaced by Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais. Maharashtra is an important state for the BJP where the party won 41 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the Shiv Sena and wanted a calm person in the state who would not create controversies at the time of elections. Party sources told The Print that the BJP does not want an aggressive person in the state it rules. Bhagat Singh Koshyari Prime Minister in January Narendra Modi Had expressed his desire to step down from his post.
appointment of new governors
Apart from Mishra and Bais, some other governors have also been changed. Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswa Bhushan Harichandan has been appointed as the Governor of Chhattisgarh, Anusuiya Uikey, Governor of Chhattisgarh has been appointed as the Governor of Manipur, La Ganesan, Governor of Manipur has been appointed as the Governor of Nagaland. Bihar Governor Fagu Chauhan has been appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya and Himachal Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has been appointed as the Governor of Bihar.
Why is the appointment of Gulab Chand Kataria important?
Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, Gulab Chand Kataria has been appointed as the new Governor of Assam. The appointment of Kataria, the chief ministerial candidate, has been made ahead of the assembly elections to be held in Rajasthan later this year. Choosing Kataria as the governor of Assam is a politically significant move. One, he will be replaced by an aggressive face as Leader of Opposition (LoP) to take on Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and second, the party is focusing on the state. Kataria was one of the detractors of former CM and senior party leader Vasundhara Raje, though she served as home minister in both the Raje governments in 2004 and 2014-2018.
tribal leader appointed
Two leaders from Uttar Pradesh, Laxman Prasad Acharya, who is a member of the Legislative Council in the state, and Shiv Pratap Shukla, a Rajya Sabha MP, have also been selected in view of next year’s Lok Sabha elections. Laxman Prasad Acharya has been appointed as the new Governor of Sikkim and Shiv Pratap Shukla as the new Governor of Himachal Pradesh. Acharya belongs to the Kharwar tribe and in 2014, when Prime Minister Modi contested the Varanasi Lok Sabha elections for the first time, he served as the Speaker of Kashi Prant. His appointment will give a boost to the northeastern state of Assam where tribals are in majority. This is also expected to help the BJP in the upcoming elections in Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Sadha of Brahmins through Shiv Pratap Shukla?
This Brahmin leader Shiv Pratap Shukla was selected for the Union Cabinet in 2014. Shukla’s appointment as the governor of Himachal Pradesh is significant for both the states. The BJP recently lost the Himachal assembly elections and the UP Lok Sabha elections are crucial for the party. The party gave Shukla the charge of Brahmins during the UP assembly elections in 2022. Amit Shah made him the chairman of the committee for the care of Brahmins when reports of the community’s disenchantment with the BJP surfaced.
A BJP leader told that it is important to choose an anti-CM Yogi person to reach out to Brahmins as Shukla is known to be an anti-math person. Under the leadership of Yogi, he was continuously sidelined in the politics of Gorakhpur. It is interesting that the BJP has balanced the Brahmin lobby by appointing Shukla as the Governor.
Also elected a member of the minority community
Senior leader and former Tamil Nadu MP C.P. Radha Krishnan has been appointed as the Governor of Jharkhand, while retired judge, Justice S. Abdul Nazir has been appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Where BJP is trying to establish a foothold. Nazir was the only minority community judge in the bench that delivered the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict. Abdul Nazir belongs to Karnataka and being a member of a minority community, fits the central government’s narrative of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas.
former army officer governor of arunachal pradesh
Retired Lieutenant General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik has been appointed as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. He was posted as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief in the strategically important and sensitive Northern Command in 2011. Himself a cadet from the National Defense Academy (NDA), three generations of him have served in the army. He has served during the Kargil War and in the Infantry Brigade of Jammu and Kashmir. He has years of experience in the North-East, which explains his current appointment.
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