Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi, who has had a running feud with the
Centre and even approached the Supreme Court against attempts to ease
him out, was sacked on Saturday March 28,2015
A brief statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said that “Qureshi
shall cease to hold the office of the Governor of Mizoram.”
Note
Aziz Qureshi, who had a tenure till May 2017, is the second Governor after Kamla Beniwal to be sacked after having been shifted to Mizoram months after the Narendra Modi government assumed office.
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, who was also transferred to
Mizoram, had tendered his resignation, refusing to take charge of his
new assignment.
Aziz Qureshi, who was among the Governors appointed by the UPA government
and was told by the then Home Secretary Anil Goswami to quit after
change in Government, approached the Supreme Court against attempts to
ease him out. He was then the Uttarakhand Governor.
After the new NDA Government took over, many Governors appointed by the
previous UPA regime were eased out which included Beniwal, 87, who had
served in Gujarat earlier and had a running battle with Mr. Modi when he
was the Gujarat Chief Minister.
Virendra Kataria, a former Congress leader, was also sacked as Puducherry lieutenant governor.
Four other Governors — M.K. Narayanan (West Bengal), Ashwani Kumar
(Nagaland), B.L. Joshi (UP), Shekhar Dutt (Chhattisgarh) and B V Wanchoo
(Goa) had put in their papers apparently after they were telephoned by
the Union Home secretary.
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