President Appoints Gulab Chand Kataria As new Governor of Assam

GUWAHATI- Gulab Chand Kataria, the opposition leader in the Rajasthan Assembly, will become the next Governor of Assam.  Professor Jagdish Mukhi is Assam’s current governor, who took office on October 10, 2017.

Gulab Chand Kataria is a politician for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). From 2014 to 2018, he was Rajasthan’s home minister. He is a senior leader in the BJP and a member of the central working committee of the party.

In the midst of changes to the position for several states, Kataria succeeds the current Governor of Assam. As many as 13 Indian states will have new governors, according to reports.

The list of new Governors:

• General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, PVSM, UYSM, YSM (Retired) as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
• Lakshman Prasad Acharya as Governor of Sikkim
• P. Radhakrishnan as Governor of Jharkhand
• Shiv Pratap Shukla as Governor of Himachal Pradesh
• Gulab Chand Kataria as Governor of Assam
• Justice (Retd.) S. Abdul Nazeer as Governor of Andhra Pradesh
• Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh appointed as Governor of Chhattisgarh
• Sushri Anusuiya Uikye, Governor of Chhattisgarh appointed as Governor of Manipur
• Ganesan, Governor of Manipur appointed as Governor of Nagaland
• Phagu Chauhan, Governor of Bihar appointed as Governor of Meghalaya
• Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Himachal Pradesh appointed as Governor of Bihar
• Ramesh Bais, Governor of Jharkhand appointed as Governor of Maharashtra
• (Dr.) B.D. Mishra (Retd.), Governor of Arunachal Pradesh appointed as Lt. Governor of Ladakh