Putting speculations to rest and once again coming up with
surprise, the Modi Government has appointed Girish Chandra Murmu
(IAS:1985:Gujarat) and R K Mathur (IAS:1977:TR) as Lieutenant Governors of
Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh respectively when two Union territories are created on
31 October. The outgoing Expenditure Secretary Murmu, a close confidante
of Modi, had previously served as Additional Principal Secretary to Narendra
Modi, the then Gujarat Chief Minister. He was brought to the Finance Ministry
in 2015 and later became Expenditure Secretary in May this year. Mathur had
joined the transparency watchdog Central Information Commission after
retirement and later became the country’s Chief Information Commissioner. JK Governor Satya Pal Malik will take over as Governor of Goa
replacing Mridula Sinha. Former IB director Dineshwar Sharma, who was working as
interlocutor, has become administrator of Lakshadweep. Some other changes included with Kerala BJP president PS
Sreedharan Pillai being appointed as Governor of Mizoram. He replaces Jagdish
Mukhi, the Assam Governor who held the additional charge of Mizoram after
Kummanam Rajasekharan resigned in March 2019 to contest the Lok Sabha election
against Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram.
Putting speculations to rest and once again coming up with
surprise, the Modi Government has appointed Girish Chandra Murmu
(IAS:1985:Gujarat) and R K Mathur (IAS:1977:TR) as Lieutenant Governors of
Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh respectively when two Union territories are created on
31 October.
The outgoing Expenditure Secretary Murmu, a close confidante of Modi, had previously served as Additional Principal Secretary to Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat Chief Minister. He was brought to the Finance Ministry in 2015 and later became Expenditure Secretary in May this year. Mathur had joined the transparency watchdog Central Information Commission after retirement and later became the country’s Chief Information Commissioner.
JK Governor Satya Pal Malik will take over as Governor of Goa replacing Mridula Sinha.
Former IB director Dineshwar Sharma, who was working as interlocutor, has become administrator of Lakshadweep.
Some other changes included with Kerala BJP president PS Sreedharan Pillai being appointed as Governor of Mizoram. He replaces Jagdish Mukhi, the Assam Governor who held the additional charge of Mizoram after Kummanam Rajasekharan resigned in March 2019 to contest the Lok Sabha election against Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram.