INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader and Maharashtra guv Bhagat Singh Koshyari, who had stimulated debates with his outspoken statements and
recently expressed his determination to stop, lastly put in his documents on Sunday.In a major reshuffle of the gubernatorial pack,
consisting of the appointment of retired Supreme Court judge Justice S Abdul Nazeer as Andhra Pradesh guv, the President called brand-new
guvs in 12 states and an LG in Ladakh
The 13 consist of six new faces; of them 4 are BJP leaders: Lakshman Prasad Acharya, CP Radhakrishnan, Shiv Pratap Shukla and Gulab Chand
Nazeer became part of the five-judge SC bench that unanimously chose in 2019 to provide a 2.77-acre website in Ayodhya for the building of
Nazeer (65) retired from the SC on January 4 this year
He is the 2nd SC judge to have actually been selected governor by the Modi government after former CJI S Sathasivam moved to Kerala Raj
Another ex-CJI, Justice Ranjan Gogoi who headed the Ayodhya bench, was chosen to the Rajya Sabha in 2020
The exit of BS Koshyari as Maharashtra guv, who has been replaced by Jharkhand governor Ramesh Bais, is expected to assist plug a potential
vulnerability of the judgment saffron alliance ahead of the crucial BMC polls in Mumbai.Eighty-year-old Koshyari took charge as Maharashtra
governor in September 2019 at a time of a political chaos in the state following Shiv Sena severing its ties with BJP
The latest controversy surrounding Koshyari was about his remarks on Chhatrapati Shivaji, whom he described as the icon of olden times
The remarks set off protests from the opposition celebrations, who demanded that he be sacked.The whisperings of anxiousness amongst the
Maharastra BJP and Shiv Sena (Shinde) about his extension was likewise no more a secret
Koshyari stated last month that he had actually conveyed his desire to stop to PM Narendra Modi and that he would like to spend the rest of
his life reading, writing and in other activities.According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson, President Droupadi Murmu accepted the
resignations of Koshyari and RK Mathur as the governor of Maharashtra and the lieutenant guv of Ladakh respectively
It was not immediately known what factors prompted Mathurs resignation
Mathur has been facing stiff opposition led by kept in mind education reformist Sonam Wangchuk in the three-year-old UT
The President selected guv of Arunachal Pradesh Brig B D Mishra (retd) in his place.Another substantial visit was of Brahmin face from
Gorakhpur in UP Shiv Prasad Shukla as guv of Himachal Pradesh and BJP leader from Rajasthan, Gulab Chand Kataria, being appointed the Raj
Bhawan responsibility in Assam.Seen as part of preparations for Rajasthan surveys, Katarias Raj Bhawan obligation is not just being seen in
the wake of his age (78) but likewise the truth that the state, where celebration is confident of return, is crowded with numerous CM
aspirants.The federal government sources likewise rejected the narrative that it does not rope in minorities in the distribution of duties
as 4 minorities have risen to Raj Bhawans consisting of Justice SA Nazeer (retd) and Arif Mohammad Khan (Kerala) who are Muslms, whereas
Kataria is Jain and Lt Gen Gurmeet Singh (Uttarakhand) a Sikh.While Nazeer was appointed the brand-new governor of Andhra Pradesh, the
incumbent, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, has been moved to Chhattisgarh
Nazeer has actually been part of numerous path-breaking decisions, including those on the politically sensitive Ayodhya land dispute,
immediate triple talaq and the one that declared right to personal privacy a basic
Elevated as a peak court judge in 2017, he was part of a five-judge Constitution bench which had in 2019 cleared the method for the
construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya and directed the Centre to set aside a five-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board
for a mosque.The President also designated Lt Gen Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (retd) as guv of Arunachal Pradesh
Lt Gen Parnaik (retd) functioned as leader of the Armys distinguished Northern Command, and it was during his period that the bodies of two
soldiers were mutilated by the Pakistani forces in Poonch sector in 2013
Four BJP leaders, consisting of 2 from UP, were selected new guvs: Lakshman Prasad Acharya, CP Radhakrishnan, Shiv Pratap Shukla and Gulab
Chand Kataria moved to Raj Bhawans of Sikkim, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Assam respectively
While Acharya belongs to the UP legislative council, Radhakrishnan is a two-time Lok Sabha member of the BJP from Coimbatore
He was the man behind creating the BJP-led NDA alliance in 1999
Besides Bais, Mishra and Harichandan, the other transfers included the shifting of Anusuiya Uikye from Chhattisgarh to Manipur, La
Ganesan from Manipur to Nagaland, Phagu Chauhan from Bihar to Meghalaya and Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar from Himachal to Bihar.
