Former BJP leader from Coimbatore, CP Radhakrishnan, has been appointed as the Governor of Jharkhand. Ramesh Bias who was earlier Jharkhand Governor has been transferred as Maharashtra Governor.
CP Radhakrishnan had served as the former state president of the Tamil Nadu BJP. The senior BJP leader has been associated with the RSS and BJP since he was 14 years of age. He was elected to the Lok Sabha twice in 1998 (with a margin of 1,50,000 votes) and 1999 (with a margin of 55,000 votes) from Coimbatore.
In the 2014 general elections, CP Radhakrishnan secured 3,89,000 votes from the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency without the support of either DMK or AIADMK and reached the second position. In 2019, he got 3,92,007 votes coming second again.
La. Ganesan who was earlier appointed Manipur Governor has been transferred as Nagaland Governor. La. Ganesan had earlier served as a member of Rajya Sabha. He is an RSS ideologue and has served the BJP in various capacities. He has served as the National Secretary and then as the Vice President of BJP at the national level before heading the party’s Tamil Nadu unit.
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