News: Former Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla was appointed the new Governor of Manipur on Tuesday. Rashtrapati Bhavan said in its order that former Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla was appointed as the new Governor of Manipur. Let us inform that Bhalla, a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, will replace Laxman Prasad Acharya.
Ajay Kumar Bhalla’s tenure as Union Home Secretary ended in August, he was appointed to the post in August 2019. Bhalla has had the longest tenure in the important post of the country’s top bureaucrat-considered after the Cabinet Secretary. Senior IAS officer Govind Mohan has taken charge in his place.
Former Army Chief General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd) has been appointed as the new Governor of Mizoram. The former Union minister did not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections after representing Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2024.
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is the new Governor of Bihar. In place of Khan, Bihar Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has been made the Governor of Kerala. Khan was appointed the Governor of Kerala by then President Ramnath Kovind in 2019. He had supported the Narendra Modi government’s move to ban instant triple talaq. Arif Mohammad Khan was out of the Rajiv Gandhi-led cabinet in 1986 over the Shah Bano case.
The President has appointed Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati as the Governor of Odisha. The President has accepted the resignation of Odisha Governor Raghubar Das.
