New Delhi: Kerala Governor Sheila Dikshit resigned today. Dikshit is the seventh governor to resign after the NDA came to power at centre. Her resignation comes a day after she met President Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
On Sunday, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan resigned after he was transferred to Mizoram for the remainder of his tenure till 2017. Earlier, the NDA government had transferred Kamla Beniwal as Mizoram Governor from Gujarat Raj Bhawan and when she refused to resign, she was sacked three months before the end of her tenure in October.
As Gujarat Governor, Beniwal had a running battle with Narendra Modi when he was the state’s chief minister. Virendra Kataria, a former Congress leader, was also sacked as Puducherry Lieutenant Governor in July.
Five other Governors — MK Narayanan (West Bengal), Ashwani Kumar (Nagaland), BL Joshi (UP), BV Wanchoo (Goa) and Shekhar Dutt (Chhattisgarh) had put in their papers apparently after they were telephoned by the Union Home Secretary. Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi has challenged the Modi government’s moves to ease him out of office, bringing the controversy over removal of UPA-appointed Governors under judicial scanner.
Bureau Report
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