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Tamil Nadu Governor R. N. Ravi was connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) appointed the Governor of West Bengal portion Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar was fixed further complaint of Tamil Nadu up of Assembly polls successful the important States.
According to an authoritative connection from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has been appointed the Governor of Telangana, portion Jishnu Dev Varma, Governor of Telangana, volition go the Governor of Maharashtra. Nand Kishore Yadav has been appointed the Governor of Nagaland and Lt. General (retired) Syed Ata Hasnain has been named the Governor of Bihar. Vinai Kumar Saxena, the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi, has been named the Lieutenant-Governor of Ladakh, portion Taranjit Singh Sandhu volition go the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi.
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose and Ladakh Lieutenant-Governor Kavinder Gupta resigned connected Thursday (March 5, 2026). Mr. Gupta volition instrumentality complaint arsenic the Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
Mr. Gupta was appointed arsenic Ladakh’s L-G successful July 2025. His tenure witnessed unprecedented unit connected September 24, 2025, successful Leh metropolis successful which 4 people, including a Kargil warfare veteran, were killed successful constabulary firing erstwhile a protestation demanding law safeguards for the portion turned violent.
Relations betwixt Tamil Nadu Governor and the M.K. Stalin authorities person been stormy with the ruling DMK accusing the erstwhile of positioning himself arsenic a governmental rival to an elected government. Mr. Ravi withheld assent to respective Bills pursuing which the Supreme Court had successful April 2025 invoked powers to state 10 Bills “effectively approved”. He had besides repeatedly walked retired of the Assembly without speechmaking retired the customary code oregon digressed from the government’s prepared text. He had erstwhile declared that fixed to himself, helium would ne'er o.k. the NEET exemption Bill.
Incidentally, it was connected Mr. Ravi’s proposition that the sanction of the Raj Bhavan was changed to Lok Bhavan a fewer months ago. Mr. Ravi, a erstwhile Indian Police Service serviceman who retired from the Intelligence Bureau, has besides been the interlocutor for the Naga bid talks from 2014-2021.
Mr. Bose, who has been successful the presumption for the past three-and-a-half years, submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu successful Delhi.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah called her and informed astir Mr. Ravi’s appointment. She said that she was “shocked and profoundly acrophobic by the abrupt quality of the resignation” of Mr. Bose.
“Union Home Minister conscionable informed maine that Shri R.N. Ravi is being appointed arsenic Governor of West Bengal. He ne'er consulted with maine arsenic per the established normal successful this regard,” Ms. Banerjee said.
The Chief Minister said that though she did not cognize the reasons for the resignation, she “would not beryllium amazed if the Governor has been subjected to immoderate unit from the Union Home Minister to service definite governmental interests connected the eve of the forthcoming State Assembly elections.”
She added that specified actions undermine the tone of the Constitution and “strike astatine the precise instauration of our national structure.”
