Jharkhand Guv will get cost of Telangana, Puducherry as Soundararajan quits | Lok Sabha Elections News

The President of India has appointed C P Radhakrishnan, the present Governor of Jharkhand, to discharge the duties of the Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, along with his current tasks, till additional preparations are made.

This determination follows the acceptance of the resignation of Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan from the positions of Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, in accordance with a press release launched by the President’s workplace.

Soundararajan had contested the 2019 Parliament elections from Thoothukudi constituency in southern Tamil Nadu on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket, nevertheless, confronted defeat to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) Kanimozhi.

Expressing gratitude for the extra duty, CP Radhakrishnan conveyed his because of President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Home Minister Amit Shah for entrusting him with this position.

Radhakrishnan wrote, “I am humbled and blessed to be given the additional responsibility to serve as the Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. I thank from the bottom of my heart our beloved, most respected President Droupadi Murmu, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and our Home Minister Amit Shah for giving me this great additional responsibility to serve our Motherland.”

I’m humbled and blessed to be given the extra duty to function the Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
I thank from the underside of my coronary heart our beloved most revered Honourable President Smt. Droupadi Murmu Ji, our beloved most revered… pic.twitter.com/57hNukHNre

— CP Radhakrishnan (@CPRGuv) March 19, 2024

Radhakrishnan, the eleventh Governor of Jharkhand, has a outstanding political background in Tamil Nadu’s BJP circles. Having been a member of the RSS because the age of 16, he efficiently contested two Lok Sabha elections from Coimbatore as a BJP candidate in 1998 and 1999. He later ascended to the place of BJP National Executive member and served because the get together’s Tamil Nadu president from 2004 to 2007.

First Published: Mar 19 2024 | 11:30 AM IST