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Hans India
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Prez appoints Governors for Haryana, Goa, LG for Ladakh
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Monday announced the appointment of new Governors for Goa and Haryana, along with a Lieutenant Governor for the Union Territory of Ladakh. The Rashtrapati Bhavan issued a statement announcing the appointment of Prof Ashim Kumar Ghosh and Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju as the Governors of Haryana and Goa, respectively. For Ladakh, the President announced the appointment of former Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta as the LG, the statement said. According to the statement, all the appointments will take effect from the date when the appointees assume their offices. Meanwhile, President Murmu has accepted the resignation of Brigadier BD Mishra (Retd) from the office of the LG of Ladakh. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, former Union Civil Aviation Minister and TDP leader, will succeed PS Sreedharan Pillai as the Governor of Goa. Reacting to the appointment of Raju, TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu said: "Heartiest congratulations to Raju on his appointment as the Governor of Goa. This is a moment of great pride for the people of our state. I sincerely thank the President, PM Modi, and the Union Cabinet for bestowing upon him this honour. I wish Raju a successful and fulfilling tenure in this esteemed role". The next Governor of Haryana, on the other hand, comes from an academic background. Prof Ghosh is a respected academic and political thinker. Belonging to West Bengal, he has been the chief of the party's state unit and has also fought an election on the BJP ticket in the past. Ladakh LG-designate Kavinder Gupta was the Deputy to Mehbooba Mufti in a PDP-BJP coalition government.
Indian Express
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
J&K Deputy CM to Raj Bhavan: Old BJP hand Kavinder Gupta is new Ladakh Lt Governor
Former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh on Monday. He replaced Brigadier (retd) B D Mishra, who had been serving as Lt Governor since 2023. No stranger to J&K politics, Gupta has a long association with the RSS, having joined the organisation as a minor. Like many in the RSS, he too was jailed during the Emergency. Gupta was the secretary of the Punjab wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) between 1978-79 and headed the J&K unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP's youth wing, from 1993-98. He ventured into politics at the civic level and was Jammu mayor for three consecutive terms between 2005 and 2010. He was also J&K's general secretary for a brief period. He became an MLA after defeating then sitting minister Raman Bhalla from the Gandhinagar seat in the 2014 J&K Assembly polls. After the BJP forged a post-poll alliance with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and became a part of the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed government, Gupta was unanimously elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He was the first-ever BJP Speaker of the J&K Assembly. After Sayeed's death in April 2016, his daughter Mehbooba Mufti took over the PDP and was sworn in as CM. Gupta graduated from Speaker to deputy CM in April 2018 — but that was short-lived. The BJP ended ties with PDP in June 2018, leading to the collapse of Mufti's government. Following this, when the Assembly was under suspended animation, the Centre abrogated Article 370 in J&K, stripping it of its special status. Gupta has since maintained a low-profile but has remained involved with J&K politics. He has had a brief brush with controversies too in the past. In 2018, while he was Speaker, Gupta blamed the Rohingya community for the terror attack on Sunjwan Army Station. Following protests from the Opposition benches, his remarks were later expunged from the Assembly proceedings. In April 2018, barely hours after taking oath as Deputy CM, Gupta called the gang rape and killing of a minor Bakerwal girl a 'small' thing. 'Such challenges (as the incident) are faced by the government. It should not have been given all this hype… It was a small thing and we have to think over it so that such incidents are not repeated,' he said. In 2020, he described the transfer of state land under the now-scrapped Roshni Act as 'land jihad'. Subsequently, allegations of him allegedly occupying tracts of the J&K Revenue Department's land in Khasra Girdawari had come to light. Gupta has denied these claims.
Hindustan Times
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
BJP leader Kavinder Gupta new Lt Governor of Ladakh, Ghosh is Haryana governor
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed BJP leader Kavinder Gupta, 65, a former deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, as the lieutenant governor of Ladakh BJP leader Kavinder Gupta, a former deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, is the new lieutenant governor of Ladakh, while (right) Ashim Kumar Ghosh, an academic and political thinker, has been appointed as the governor of Haryana. (File photos) The Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique said that the President of India has accepted the resignation of Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra (retd) as the lieutenant governor of Union Territory of Ladakh. The President of India announced the appointment of Ashim Kumar Ghosh, a respected academic and political thinker, as the governor of Haryana. He succeeds Bandaru Dattatraya, 78, who had been serving as the governor since 2021. Former Union civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapati Raju is the new governor of Goa, succeeding PS Sreedharan Pillai. The appointments would take effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices, the release added. Gupta succeeds Brigadier Mishra, 85, who had been appointed lieutenant governor of Ladakh after accepting the resignation of RK Mathur on February 12, 2023. Mishra was previously the Arunachal Pradesh governor. On April 30, 2018, Gupta was appointed J&K deputy chief minister as a part of a cabinet reshuffle but he quit the post 51 days later on June 19 as the BJP pulled out from the alliance with the Mehbooba Mufti-led People's Democratic Party (PDP). On March 19, 2015, Gupta was elected Speaker of the assembly and became the first Bharatiya Janata Party leader to hold the post. He had defeated Raman Bhalla of the Congress to represent Gandhinagar assembly constituency in the 2014 assembly election. Earlier, he was elected mayor of the city of Jammu for a record three consecutive terms, from 2005-10. He served as the chief of the Bharatiya Yuva Morcha's Jammu and Kashmir unit from 1993-98 and was the secretary of the Punjab unit of the Vishva Hindu Parishad from 1978-79. A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member at the age of 13, he was jailed for 13 months during The Emergency.
New Indian Express
17 hours ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Former J&K DyCM Kavinder Gupta appointed L-G of Ladakh UT
SRINAGAR: Senior Jammu and Kashmir BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of erstwhile J&K state Kavinder Gupta was on Monday appointed as Lt Governor of Ladakh Union Territory by the President of India. His appointment came after the president accepted the resignation of Brig (Retd) Dr B D Mishra as Lt Governor of Ladakh. Gupta, a veteran political figure in Jammu and Kashmir, has served as Deputy Chief Minister of PDP-BJP coalition government in 2018. He has also served as Speaker of J&K Legislative Assembly and Mayor of Jammu. Gupta is the first political leader from J&K to hold post of Lt Governor of Ladakh UT, which was carved out after abrogation of Article 370 and downgranding and bifurcation of erstwhile J&K state into two Union Territories --- Jammu and Kashmir (with legislature) and Ladakh (without legislature) on August 5, 2019. The appointment of Gupta as Ladakh UT Lt Governor has come after he was last year denied a mandate by the party to contest the Assembly elections in J&K Union Territory.
Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Electoral reforms can't be called Unconstitutional: Kavinder
Senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta on Tuesday slammed National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah for terming the Election Commission's special electoral roll revision in Bihar as 'anti-Constitutional', saying such statements are not only irresponsible but also expose the NC leader's deliberate attempts to mislead the public and undermine the democratic process. Senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta. (File) In a statement issued here, Gupta said it is unfortunate that a senior politician like Farooq, who has held key constitutional positions, is now resorting to provocative and misleading narratives only to gain political mileage. 'Calling a routine electoral revision 'anti-Constitutional' is not just factually incorrect but a direct insult to the authority and autonomy of the Election Commission of India (ECI),' he stated. He reminded the NC leader that the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar is a much-needed and long-overdue exercise, the last such revision having taken place in 2003. 'In the past two decades, Bihar has witnessed massive urbanisation, internal migration, and demographic shifts. The ECI has rightly decided to clean up outdated voter lists to ensure only eligible citizens are registered and to eliminate bogus entries — something every responsible citizen should welcome,' he said. The senior BJP leader added that the move is in line with the commission's mandate to maintain free, fair, and transparent elections and has nothing to do with pleasing any so-called 'master', as alleged by Farooq. 'Such statements are deeply disrespectful to democratic institutions and reflect the frustration of a party that has lost ground across the nation,' he said. Taking strong exception to Farooq's call for an agitation to 'save the Constitution', Kavinder said, 'It is ironic that leaders who remained silent when Article 370 was misused to discriminate against Indian citizens are now preaching constitutional morality. The people of India know who stood for the Constitution and who abused it for dynastic politics.'
