C.V. Ananda Bose (left) and R.N. Ravi (proper). File
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Tamil Nadu Governor R. N. Ravi was on Thursday (March 5, 2026) appointed the Governor of West Bengal whereas Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar was given extra cost of Tamil Nadu forward of Assembly polls within the essential States.
According to an official communication from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has been appointed the Governor of Telangana, whereas Jishnu Dev Varma, Governor of Telangana, will turn into 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, whereas Taranjit Singh Sandhu will turn into the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi.
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose and Ladakh Lieutenant-Governor Kavinder Gupta resigned on Thursday (March 5, 2026). Mr. Gupta will take cost because the Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
Mr. Gupta was appointed as Ladakh’s L-G in July 2025. His tenure witnessed unprecedented violence on September 24, 2025, in Leh metropolis during which 4 folks, together with a Kargil warfare veteran, have been killed in police firing when a protest demanding constitutional safeguards for the area turned violent.
Relations between Tamil Nadu Governor and the M.Okay. Stalin authorities have been stormy with the ruling DMK accusing the previous of positioning himself as a political rival to an elected authorities. Mr. Ravi withheld assent to a number of Bills following which the Supreme Court had in April 2025 invoked powers to declare 10 Bills “effectively approved”. He had additionally repeatedly walked out of the Assembly with out studying out the customary deal with or digressed from the federal government’s ready textual content. He had as soon as declared that given to himself, he would by no means approve the NEET exemption Bill.
Incidentally, it was on Mr. Ravi’s suggestion that the title of the Raj Bhavan was modified to Lok Bhavan a couple of months in the past. Mr. Ravi, a former Indian Police Service officer who retired from the Intelligence Bureau, has additionally been the interlocutor for the Naga peace talks from 2014-2021.
Mr. Bose, who has been within the place for the previous three-and-a-half years, submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu in Delhi.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned that Union Home Minister Amit Shah known as her and knowledgeable about Mr. Ravi’s appointment. She mentioned that she was “shocked and deeply concerned by the sudden news of the resignation” of Mr. Bose.
“Union Home Minister just informed me that Shri R.N. Ravi is being appointed as Governor of West Bengal. He never consulted with me as per the established convention in this regard,” Ms. Banerjee mentioned.
The Chief Minister mentioned that although she didn’t know the explanations for the resignation, she “would not be surprised if the Governor has been subjected to some pressure from the Union Home Minister to serve certain political interests on the eve of the forthcoming State Assembly elections.”
She added that such actions undermine the spirit of the Constitution and “strike at the very foundation of our federal structure.”
Published – March 05, 2026 11:13 pm IST
