HYDERABAD: Jharkhand Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan will be the in-charge Governor for Telangana state, Rashtrapati Bhavan announced on Tuesday. He was expected to take the oath of office on Wednesday morning at the Raj Bhavan here, and was scheduled to arrive in the city late on Tuesday night.
The appointment of Radhakrishnan comes in the wake of resignation of Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan as Telangana state Governor. The President of India has accepted Dr Soundararajan’s resignation, the Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué said.
Radhakrishnan will hold additional responsibility as the in-charge Lt Governor for Puducherry, the post held earlier by Dr Soundararajan, Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
Radhakrishnan thanked President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving him the additional responsibility. “I am humbled and blessed to be given the additional responsibility,” Radhakrishnan wrote on X.
Radhakrishnan was twice elected to the Lok Sabha from Coimbatore on a BJP ticket. He is a former state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu.
Incidentally, Radhakrishnan is the third Governor with Tamil origins to be posted in Telangana state after E.S.L. Narasimhan and Dr Soundararajan, and the second former TN BJP chief after Dr Soundararajan to hold the post.
Following the acceptance of her resignation, Dr Soundararajan on Tuesday thanked President Murmu, Prime Minister Modi and the Union home minister Amit Shah for giving her an opportunity to serve the people of Telangana state and Puducherry. In a post on X, Dr Soundararajan said “special thanks to the brothers, sisters, and mothers and elders of Telangana and Puducherry for the love and affection shown to me.”
The resignation came amid reports of her plans to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Tamil Nadu. She had lost the 2019 Parliament elections from Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadu on a BJP ticket to the DMK's Kanimozhi.
