Maharashtra Governor resigns after Centre transfers him to Mizoram

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New Delhi, August 24: In a major political development, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan has sent his resignation letter to President Pranab Mukherjee after he was transferred by the Narendra Modi government to Mizoram, say sources.

However, sources in the President office said that it is yet to receive the resignation.

 

Sources had told CNN-IBN earlier that Sankaranarayanan was reluctant to assume office as the Mizoram Governor and would rather head to his native place Kerala.

If Sankaranarayanan’s resignation is accepted, he would become the sixth Governor, appointed by the previous UPA regime to step down after change of power at the helm.

Sankaranarayanan was on Sunday transferred and appointed as the Mizoram Governor, a post vacated after Kamala Beniwal was sacked by the Union government.

The Congress is likely to take up the issue and strengthen its case against the Narendra Modi government. Party leader Manish Tewari said, "Its a very unfortunate incident. The way respected people are being ill-treated, BJP doesn’t believe in any tradition- sampradayak, loktantrik parampara , doesn’t know how to respect people."

Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi had moved Supreme Court after he was allegedly pressured by the Centre to step down from his post.