President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed BJP leader Kavinder Gupta, 65, a former deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, as the lieutenant governor of Ladakh
The Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique said that the President of India has accepted the resignation of Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra (retd) as the lieutenant governor of Union Territory of Ladakh.
The President of India announced the appointment of Ashim Kumar Ghosh, a respected academic and political thinker, as the governor of Haryana. He succeeds Bandaru Dattatraya, 78, who had been serving as the governor since 2021.
Former Union civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapati Raju is the new governor of Goa, succeeding PS Sreedharan Pillai.
The appointments would take effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices, the release added.
Gupta succeeds Brigadier Mishra, 85, who had been appointed lieutenant governor of Ladakh after accepting the resignation of RK Mathur on February 12, 2023. Mishra was previously the Arunachal Pradesh governor.
