IT Correspondent
New Delhi, July 6:
Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati, an MP from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh and former BJP state President, was appointed as the Governor of Mizoram by President Ramnath Kovind on Tuesday. He is among the eight governors appointed by the President.
P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, Governor of Mizoram was transferred and appointed as Governor of Goa. Pillai was previously the BJP President of Kerala.
Satyadev Narayan Arya, Governor of Haryana was transferred and appointed as Governor of Tripura. He is a leader of BJP from Bihar. He had been a former Minister of Mines and Geology of Bihar. Besides he had been an MLA from Rajgir, Bihar for eight terms.
Ramesh Bais, Governor of Tripura was transferred and appointed as Governor of Jharkhand. Bais had been a former union minister and seven term MP from Raipur ( Chhattisgarh).
Similarly, former MP and Minister, Thaawarchand Gehlot was appointed as Governor of Karnataka. He was the Leader of the House in the upper house of Indian Parliament and was a member of the Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee of the BJP.
Bandaru Dattatraya, Governor of Himachal Pradesh was transferred and appointed as Governor of Haryana. A four term MP from Secunderabad, Telangana, Dattatraya, was former union minister. In his place Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar was appointed as Governor of Himachal Pradesh. Arlekar is a BJP leader from Goa and had been a Speaker of the Goa Assembly.
Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel was appointed as Governor of Madhya Pradesh. Patel had been a former Minister and former Deputy Minister of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.