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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Sheila Dikshit resigns as Kerala governor pre-empting Mizoram shift
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Sheila Dikshit resigns as Kerala governor pre-empting Mizoram shift

Dikshit submitted her resignation to President Pranab Mukherjee, a day after she met him and also Union home minister Rajnath Singh

Union home minister Rajnath Singh (right) and Sheila Dikshit at a meeting in New Delhi on Monday. Photo: PTIPremium
Union home minister Rajnath Singh (right) and Sheila Dikshit at a meeting in New Delhi on Monday. Photo: PTI

New Delhi: Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday resigned as Kerala governor becoming the eighth governor appointed by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime to quit since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government came to power in May this year.

Seventy six-year-old Dikshit submitted her resignation to President Pranab Mukherjee, a day after she met him and also Union home minister Rajnath Singh. The President’s secretariat has sent her resignation to the Union home ministry for necessary action, official sources said. “I have resigned, I did it yesterday and I don’t want to comment further," Dikshit, a former Delhi chief minister, said.

With this, Dikshit becomes the eighth governor to have resigned since the Narendra Modi government came to power on 26 May. Six UPA-appointed governors—K. Sankaranarayanan (Maharashtra), M.K. Narayanan (West Bengal), Ashwani Kumar (Nagaland), B.L. Joshi (UP), B.V. Wanchoo (Goa) and Shekhar Dutt (Chhattisgarh), have already resigned after being nudged by the NDA government.

V. Purushothaman, the governor of Mizoram, had resigned after he was transferred to Nagaland in July this year. Dikshit, who served as Delhi chief minister from 1998 to 2013, was appointed Kerala governor in March just before the model code of conduct came into force for the Lok Sabha polls.

There were indications that Dikshit may be next in line to be transferred to Mizoram, a state where Sankarnarayan and Kamla Beniwal were shunted out to 87-year-old Beniwal, who had a running battle with a running battle with then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi when she was governor of the state, took charge as Mizoram governor but was sacked after a month by the NDA government.

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Published: 26 Aug 2014, 04:53 PM IST
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