Assam: On Wednesday, Gulab Chand Kataria takes the oath of office as Governor of Assam. Kataria, 78, was sworn in as Assam’s 31st governor at Guwahati’s Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra. Kataria, a resident of Rajasthan’s Udaipur, would succeed professor Jagdish Mukhi, who stepped down on February 19 after serving his term. Kataria previously served as Rajasthan’s Home Minister and as the State Assembly’s leader of the opposition. On his arrival in Guwahati on Tuesday, Kataria and his wife Anita Kataria were greeted warmly by several Assam cabinet ministers.
Kataria, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the leader of the opposition in the Rajasthan assembly, will now serve as governor.
Gulab Chand Kataria told the media, “I will fulfil the constitutional responsibility entrusted to me by Prime Minister Modi and our party in such a way that I will live up to the expectations of the high command and the Prime Minister.”
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Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan and senior BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria appointed governor of Assam
His Excellency the President has issued a notification for the change of Governor in many Indian states. Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari and Ladakh LG Radha Krishna Mathur have both resigned. Gulab Chand Kataria, the leader of the Opposition in Rajasthan, has been appointed Governor of Assam.
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Lieutenant General Kaivalya Trivikram Parnaik has been appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, while Laxman Prasad Acharya has been appointed Governor of Sikkim, CP Radhakrishnan has been appointed Governor of Jharkhand, Gulab Chand Kataria has been appointed Governor of Assam, and Shiv Pratap Shukla has been appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
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Gulab Chand Kataria is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician (BJP). He served as Rajasthan’s home minister from 2014 to 2018. He is a senior leader in the BJP and a member of the party’s central working committee.
Kataria succeeds the current Governor of Assam in the midst of changes to the position for several states. According to reports, as many as 13 Indian states will have new governors.
Meanwhile, it was reported that India’s President Droupadi Murmu accepted the resignation of Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
The resignations of Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh RK Mathur have been accepted, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique.
