Newsinc24 Team The Centre on Tuesday evening appointed new Governors in five states. Now Arif Mohammed Khan has been appointed as the Governor of Bihar.Former Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla was appointed the new Governor of Manipur.
VK Singh, a retired Army Chief and a former minister in the previous Narendra Modi-led government, has been appointed the new Mizoram Governor.
The President has accepted the resignation of Raghubar Das as the Governor of Odisha. Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati, Governor of Mizoram, has been appointed as the Governor of Odisha in his place.
Bhalla, now Manipur Governor, is a 1984-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre who was appointed the Union Home Secretary in August 2019 and remained in the post for nearly half a decade, until 2024. Experts said his tenure at the Home Ministry will serve him well in his new posting in a state that is going through a volatile period.
Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has been at loggerheads with the ruling CPI(M) and its student wing SFI over appointments made by him to some universities of the state in his capacity as Chancellor of universities.
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