Former Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu has been appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, according to an official communiqué issued by the President’s Secretariat. The appointment was announced as part of a broader reshuffle of Governors and Lieutenant Governors across several states and Union Territories by President Droupadi Murmu.

Sandhu will replace Vinai Kumar Saxena, who has served as Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor since May 26, 2022. Saxena has now been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, taking over from Kavinder Gupta. Gupta, in turn, has been appointed as the new Governor of Himachal Pradesh as part of the administrative changes.

The reshuffle includes several key gubernatorial appointments across the country. R. N. Ravi, who currently serves as the Governor of Tamil Nadu, has been appointed as the Governor of West Bengal following the resignation of C. V. Ananda Bose. Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, the current Governor of Kerala, will discharge the functions of the Governor of Tamil Nadu.

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In other appointments announced by the President’s Secretariat, Shiv Pratap Shukla has been named the Governor of Telangana, while Jishnu Dev Varma will serve as the Governor of Maharashtra. Nand Kishore Yadav has been appointed as the Governor of Nagaland, and Syed Ata Hasnain, a retired Lieutenant General of the Indian Army, has been named the Governor of Bihar.

The new appointments are expected to take effect once the respective appointees formally assume charge of their offices. The reshuffle is part of the Union government’s periodic administrative reassignments aimed at strengthening governance across states and Union Territories.

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