MYSURU: Former MP from Mysore-Kodagu constituency, CH Vijayashankar, has been appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya by President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday. The President also appointed governors for several other states across the country.
President Murmu transferred three governors and gave additional responsibilities to two Governors including Ramen Deka of Chhattisgarh and C P Radhakrishnan of Jharkhand. Gujarat’s former Chief Secretary K Kailashnathan, a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
Former Tripura chief minister Jishnu Dev Varma has been appointed as the Governor of Telangana while Ramen Deka has been appointed as the Governor of Chhattisgarh. Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde has been appointed Governor of Rajasthan, Om Prakash Mathur for Sikkim and Santosh Kumar Gangwar for Jharkhand.
Reacting to the development C H Vijayashankar said, “I should have become the chief minister in 2010, but I missed the opportunity then”.
Speaking to Public TV after being appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya, Vijayashankar said, “In 2010, when former chief minister BS Yediyurappa resigned as CM, my name was recommended for the post, but I missed it then. After 14 years of political exile, the party has given me a huge responsibility now”.
Vijayashankar, who won as a BJP candidate in 1998 and 2004, joined the Congress in 2019, but lost to Pratap Simha. He returned to the BJP and was hoping to get a ticket in the recent Lok Sabha elections