President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted the resignation of Nagaland Governor Ashwani Kumar and delegated additional charge of the gubernatorial post to Meghalaya Governor Krishan Kant Paul.
For his part, K Rosaiah, Governor of Tamil Nadu, will also discharge the functions of the Governor of Karnataka, after the incumbent HR Bhardwaj completes his tenure on June 28.
Mizoram Governor Vakkom Purushothaman has been tasked with the additional responsibility of Tripura after the completion of tenure of Devanand Konwar on Saturday.
The replacements, to be made in the next few days, will be part of the bigger exercise through which the NDA Government will also fill up other posts of Governors which fell vacant after the incumbents put in their papers after a nudge from the Centre to do so. UP Governor Bl Joshi was the first to resign followed by Chhattisgarh’s Shekhar Dutt and Nagaland’s Ashwani Kumar.