Nine states get new governors, Lakshman Prasad Acharya given additional charge of Manipur

President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday appointed new governors to nine states including Manipur, which has been gripped by ethnic violence for more than a year.

Lakshman Prasad Acharya, who has been the governor of Sikkim, was appointed as Assam’s governor. He has also been given the additional charge of Manipur, replacing Anusuiya Uikey who was Manipur’s governor from February 2023.

Manipur has been gripped by ethnic clashes between the Meitei and tribal Kuki communities since May 2023. The violence has left at least 225 persons dead and displaced 60,000 persons since the beginning of the clashes.

Om Prakash Mathur, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Rajasthan, will assume the charge of Sikkim’s governor.

Gulab Chand Kataria was moved from Assam to Punjab. He was also appointed as the administrator of Chandigarh, a Union territory. The president accepted the resignation of Banwarilal Purohit who was serving as the governor of Punjab and Chandigarh’s administrator since August 2021.

Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde, a former Maharashtra Assembly speaker and BJP leader, was appointed as the governor of Rajasthan.

Jishnu Dev Varma, who was Tripura’s deputy chief minister between 2018 and 2023, was named as the governor of Telangana, where the Congress is in power.

BJP leader and former Union minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar was made the governor of Jharkhand. An eight-time Lok Sabha MP, Gangwar did not...

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