The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government has transferred Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan to Mizoram for his remaining tenure, which ends in 2017.
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, who was transferred to Mizoram for his remaining tenure, resigned on Sunday.
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan said on Thursday that there was no other city in the world on par with Mumbai and anybody can live there. "Anybody can live in Mumbai. Only Mumbai can compete with itself. The rich, middle class and the poor co-exist here," the governor said during an informal interaction with mediapersons, his first since taking over the gubernatorial post.
The anti-black magic and superstition ordinance has been promulgated in Maharashtra, four days after the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune.
The Centre is expected to finalise the list of Bharatiya Janata Party veterans to be appointed as Governors to fill up vacancies in various Raj Bhawans on Wednesday.
In fresh trouble for former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the Election Commission on Sunday slapped a showcause notice on him for failing to lodge his election expenses as per law in a paid news case and asked him why he should not be disqualified.
An exercise to reshuffle governors is underway in New Delhi. Decision makers have taken necessary clearance from the party leadership.
Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao gives sanction to the CBI to prosecute former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh scam case.
Kerala Governor Sheila Dikshit on Monday met President Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Rajnath Singh amid indications that she may put in her papers if shunted out of the southern state.
Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi, who has had a running feud with the Centre and even approached the Supreme Court against attempts to ease him out, was sacked on Saturday.
The government is planning to appoint new Governors in at least six states in the next 15-20 days, with Bihar, Punjab and Assam likely among these.
Four new governors -- three of whom are Bharatiya Janata Party leaders including Tathagata Roy for Tripura and Draupadi Murmu for Jharkhand - have been appointed by President Pranab Mukherjee.
The Centre has asked some of the Governors appointed during the United Progressive Alliance regime to quit in the wake of change of government.
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan has sent 60 representations and petitions received by him from various individuals and organisations, both seeking and opposing clemency for Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to the state home department.
On Maharashtra's 50th foundation day, Governor K Sankaranarayanan and Chief Minister Ashok Chavan led the state in paying tributes to the 105 martyrs of the movement that led to the creation of the state.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said the six serving United Progressive Alliance-appointed governors should quit on their own, as their appointments were without merit.
Putting the Maharashtra government in a quandary, a defiant Ramanand Tiwari on Sunday said he will not quit as information commissioner and will challenge the recommendation to the governor to suspend him following his alleged involvement in the Adarsh Housing scam.
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B V Wanchoo on Friday resigned as Governor of Goa as government went about finalising its plans for replacing the Governors appointed during the previous UPA regime.
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Thursday suspended defiant state Information Commissioner Ramanand Tiwari, who had refused to abide by the government's order to quit for his alleged involvement in the Adarsh Housing scam. "The governor has suspended Tiwari with immediate effect, using powers under Section 17.2 of the RTI Act," a Raj Bhavan spokesperson said. The development comes two days after the governor had made a reference to the Supreme Court.
After batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and industrialist Mukesh Ambani, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan is the latest to face the Shiv Sena's ire for saying that Mumbai belongs to all. "Saying that migrants will continue to come to Mumbai is akin to the betrayal of Maharashtra," Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana on Saturday. The governor had said earlier that, "Anybody can live in Mumbai. Only Mumbai can compete with itself."
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Rampur Jaya Prada on Tuesday met Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan to seek pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt. Dutt, who has already spent 18 months behind bars, was on Thursday sentenced to five years imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
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Narendra Modi arrived in Mumbai on Monday on his first visit to Mumbai after becoming the Prime Minister.
Rich tributes were on Saturday paid to the 26/11 martyrs on the third anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks by Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and a host of other leaders.
Opposition leaders in Maharashtra on Friday met Governor K Sankaranarayanan and demanded the dismissal of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government in the state over the death of three farmers in police firing in Maval near Pune on Tuesday.Leader of Opposition in Assembly Eknath Khadse, Opposition leader in Council Pandurang Phundkar and group leaders of opposition parties in the legislature were among those who met the governor at the Raj Bhavan on Friday morning.
PM Modi on Monday visited the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre where he was apprised of the safety and security measures adopted by the DAE and India's excellent record in this regard.
With defiant Information Commissioner Ramanand Tiwari digging in his heels, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Tuesday made a reference to the Supreme Court for suspension of the former bureaucrat for his alleged role in the Adarsh housing scam. "The governor has made a reference to the Supreme Court on Tiwari under Section 17.1 of the RTI Act," a Raj Bhavan spokesperson said, taking forward the process to suspend Tiwari.
'Sanju is very special for me," the actress gives her reasons for supporting Dutt.
The Congress on Wednesday kept up attack on the government over removal of governors appointed during United Progressive Alliance rule, saying its priority should be to combat inflation and not "shadow boxing" while the Janata Dal-United demanded a debate in Parliament over the very need of having governors.
After forcing some governors to quit, the Narendra Modi government on Friday sacked Lt Governor of Puducherry Virendra Kataria, in the first such action against political appointees of the United Progressive Alliance regime.
Floral tributes were paid to martyrs of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks on the fourth anniversary of the strike on Monday with Union ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Sharad Pawar laying wreaths at the police memorial in South Mumbai.
Shinde and Pawar paid homage to the heroes at the Police Gymkhana in Marine Lines where a 26/11 memorial has been erected in remembrance of the policemen, who lost their lives fighting terrorists during the dastardly strikes.
Maharashtra Government on Monday downplayed recent multi-crore investment proposals in Gujarat and said the state continues to be India's leading industrial state.
Bharatiya Janata Party veterans like Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh and V K Malhotra may be accommodated as governors as their names are doing the rounds for appointment in gubernatorial posts in key states like Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has accepted Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's resignation in the wake of the Adarsh Housing Society scam.Chavan had earlier offered to resign over the scam that has erupted about the construction of a high-rise building in a posh area of Mumbai. The Congress high command is reportedly upset with Chavan, whose mother-in-law and two other relatives are among the 103 members of the controversial Adarsh Housing Society.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to seek a review of Maharashtra governor's order refusing to grant sanction for prosecution of former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the multi-crore Adarsh housing scam.
Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday signed as Kerala governor becoming the eighth governor appointed by the United Progressive Alliance regime to quit since the National Democratic Alliance government came to power in May this year.
Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal, who had frosty relations with Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of the state, was tonight sent off to Mizoram in a reshuffle of governors effected by the government.
Fate of more than ten Governors, including Karnataka's H R Bhardwaj and Punjab's Shivraj V Patil, appointed by the outgoing UPA government hangs in balance with indications that the new dispensation may politely ask them to vacate the Raj Bhavans.
In the second such exercise in four days, the Prithviraj Chavan led Congress-Nationalist Congress Party ministry in Maharashtra was expanded on Monday with the induction of two Congress ministers.
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