SHILLONG, July 28: Two-time Lok Sabha member and former Karnataka cabinet minister, Chandrashekhar H Vijayashankar has been appointed the Governor of Meghalaya, succeeding Phagu Chauhan who demits office on Monday.
The new Governor will be sworn in on Tuesday.
His name as the Governor of Meghalaya was approved by President Droupadi Murmu who also appointed Governors of five other states.
He was with the BJP for a greater part of his political career before joining the Congress for two years in 2017. He returned to the BJP fold in 2019.
He represented the Mysore constituency of Karnataka in Lok Sabha. He was elected member of the Karnataka Assembly from Hunsur in 1994.
In 1998, he was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha from Mysore constituency.
He was re-elected to Mysore Lok Sabha constituency in 2004 against Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, who was the prince of Mysore Kingdom and head of the Wadiyar dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Mysore between 1399 and 1950.
He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Karnataka and had unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Hassan constituency in 2014 as a BJP candidate against former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda.
He was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Council from June 15, 2010 till the end of his tenure in January 2016.
