New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed new Governors for eight States including Karnataka and Haryana.
Here are details:
PS Sreedharan Pillai, Governor of Mizoram, has been transferred and appointed as Governor of Goa.
Satyadev Narayan Arya, Governor of Haryana, has been transferred and appointed as Governor of Tripura.
Ramesh Bais, Governor of Tripura, has betransferred and appointed as Governor of Jharkhand.
Union Minister Thawarchand Gehlot has been appointed as the Governor of Karnataka.
Bandaru Dattatraya, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has been transferred and appointed as Governor of Haryana.
Hari Babu Kambhampati has been appointed as the Governor of Mizoram.
Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel has been appointed as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar is now the Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
The development comes ahead of the possible Union Cabinet expansion, in which around 20 new faces will likely be inducted in the Modi government.