Industry Odisha Bureau, Oct 12: Veteran BJP leader Braj Mohan Ram is Odisha’s new Governor. The President announced the appointment as part of a gubernatorial reshuffle across six states. The changes cover Odisha, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
Dr Sudha Yadav will take charge as Governor of Karnataka. Dr Dhal Singh Bisen has been named Governor of Uttarakhand. Dushyant Gautam is the new Governor of Sikkim.
The reshuffle also involves two lateral moves. Om Prakash Mathur, until now Sikkim’s Governor, shifts to Kerala. Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar takes over in Tamil Nadu.
Ram arrives in Odisha with more than three decades in public life. He was born on January 1, 1958, at Chandwa in Palamu district. The area is now part of Jharkhand.
Ram entered electoral politics through the Bihar Legislative Assembly. He represented Chandwa as an MLA from 1991 to 1995. He later moved to national politics as a Lok Sabha member.
He won the Palamu parliamentary seat three times in a row. He held it from 1996 to 2004. He now becomes the constitutional head of Odisha .
