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New Governors in 5 states Admiral Joshi Andaman L-G; Purohit on Chennai post

New Governors in 5 states
Brigadier BD Mishra (retd) has been appointed governor of Arunachal Pradesh. ANI

New Delhi, September 30

Former Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi will be the next Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of the strategic Andaman and Nicobar Islands even as President Ram Nath Kovind today appointed new Governors in  five states — Tamil Nadu, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. With Banwarilal Purohit, Tamil Nadu will get a full-time Governor after about a year. As of now, Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao holds the additional charge. There had been demands for a full-time Governor in view of the political crisis in the state following the death of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)Senior BJP leader Satya Pal Malik will be the new Bihar Governor. He will take charge from West Bengal Governor Kesri Nath Tripathi, who has been holding additional charge since Kovind’s elevation to Rashtrapati Bhawan. Former member of the Bihar Legislative Council Ganga Prasad has been appointed Meghalaya Governor. He will take over from Purohit, who till now was the Governor of Assam and was holding additional charge.With Admiral Joshi appointed L-G, incumbent BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi has been shifted to Assam.Brig BD Mishra (retd) will be the Governor, Arunachal Pradesh. He will take over from Nagaland Governor Padmanabha B Acharya, who was holding dual charge.There is buzz that the next round of appointments may take place after October 12-13. Purohit, the new TN Governor, has been involved in social, political and educational causes in Vidarbha.Malik, the new Bihar Governor, is in charge of the party’s Kisan Morcha and has held important positions at the Centre and in the state. Prasad, the new Governor of Meghalaya, was elected a member of the Bihar Legislative Council for the first time in 1994 and was MLC for 18 years. Mukhi, the new Assam Governor, has won seven times from Delhi’s Janakpuri.Admiral Joshi was Chief of Naval Staff from August 2012 to February 26, 2014. He quit taking moral responsibility for the fire in INS Sindhuratna. Brig Mishra, the new Governor of Arunachal, commanded the NSG Counter Hijack Task Force that played a role in rescuing passengers aboard an Indian Airlines plane hijacked in 1993. — TNS