Former Union Minister Najma Heptulla will be the new Governor of Manipur while ex-Rajya Sabha member VP Singh Badnore goes to Punjab in new gubernatorial appointments.
The Centre on Wednesday also appointed Banwarilal Purohit, a BJP leader from Nagpur, as the new Governor of Assam.
Delhi BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi was appointed lieutenant-Governor of Andaman Nicobar Islands and KJ Alphonse was appointed Administrator of Chandigarh, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué.
Former J&K top cop Farooq Khan is appointed as Administrator of lakshadweep.
Heptulla, 76, had last month resigned as Minority Affairs Minister from the Union Cabinet.
The resignation had come as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is believed to have set an unwritten writ of '75-year age bar' for Ministers.
Banwarilal Purohit, is a three-time former member of the lok Sabha from Nagpur and Managing Editor of Central India's daily 'The Hitavada'.
He was lok Sabha MP of Congress in 1984 and 1989. He joined BJP, during the Ram Janmabhumi movement in 1991. He lost the election in 1991 and was elected to lok Sabha again in 1996.
Badnore, 68, who hails from Rajasthan, will be the new Governor of Punjab, the communique said.