Punjab Governor resigned after meeting with Shah
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ February 3,2024
Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh have resigned from his post. The Governor met the President on Friday and expressed his desire to step down.
Yesterday, Purohit had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at New Delhi.
In August 2021,Purohit was appointed as officiating Governor of Punjab. Having been appointed as the Governor of Tamil Nadu on 30 September 2017, he assumed office on October 6, 2017.He was appointed as Governor of Assam State by President of India on 17 August 2016.He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur (Lok Sabha constituency) three times, twice as an Indian National Congress member, once as a BJP member.
Purohit is a senior political personality having shaped public affairs in a big way for last four decades. Purohit has been three-time Lok Sabha member from Nagpur and Managing Editor of ‘The Hitavada’, Central India’s oldest and largest circulated English daily for last one hundred years. He is an eminent educationist, a renowned social activist, institution builder, nationalist thinker. Purohit, a well-known public figure with spotless image has been in active public life for more than four decades making a mark in the social, political, educational and industrial fields in Central India.
