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Controversial Tripura guv gets M’laya job

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SHILLONG: Tathagata Roy, who as governor of Tripura created quite a flutter on social media for the wrong reasons, has been named the new governor of Meghalaya in a major reshuffle on Tuesday.
Incumbent Ganga Prasad has been posted as governor of Sikkim even before completing a year in office in Meghalaya.
Roy, who was the BJP president in West Bengal from 2002 to 2006, stirred controversies with his comments on social media some of which had communal connotations. The latest among his gems was on the demolition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Tripura after which a group of intellectuals in West Bengal had written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking action against the senior politician.
Roy is a former professor and founder-head of the Department of Construction Engineering at Jadavpur University in Kolkata. The 73-year-old politician was a swayamsevak since 1985 and was member of the BJP national executive since 2002.
The academician turned politician, who is originally from Brahmanbaria in Bangladesh, has authored a few books and written several periodicals for leading Bengali publications.
KP Solanki, who was the governor of Haryana, will take charge in Tripura in place of Roy.
Among other major postings were Satya Pal Malik who replaced veteran M M Vora as governor of disturbed Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader Lal Ji Tandon who replaced Malik in Bihar and Satyadev Narayan Arya as governor of Haryana.
Baby Rani Maurya is the new governor of Uttarakhand. (With inputs from PTI)

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