Governor CV Ananda Bose resigned on Thursday, citing personal reasons. He was RN Ravi, who was serving as the Tamil Nadu governor.

With Ravi being sent to West Bengal, Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar was given additional charge of Tamil Nadu.

The changes came weeks ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It was also part of a wider reshuffle in nine states and Union Territories.

In a press release, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said that President Droupadi Murmu had on Thursday night appointed Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retired) as the new governor of Bihar. He will be taking over from Arif Mohammed Khan. Khan had held the position since January 2025.

Taranjit Singh Sandhu, a retired diplomat and former ambassador to the United States, was appointed the new lieutenant governor of Delhi. After retiring from the Indian Foreign Service, Sandhu had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

He will replace Vinai Kumar Saxena, who was posted to Ladakh as lieutenant governor.

Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader who briefly served as the deputy chief minister of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state in 2018, was appointed the new governor of Himachal Pradesh.

Gupta will replace Shiv Pratap Shukla, who will become the governor of Telangana. Shukla was a Union minister of state for finance in the Narendra Modi government between 2017 and 2019.

Governor Jishnu Dev Varma will move from Telangana to Maharashtra.

Nand Kishore Yadav, a former speaker in the Bihar Assembly, was listed as the new governor of Nagaland. The Raj Bhavan in the state had been functioning under the additional charge of Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla since August 2025.

The appointments will take effect from the dates they assume charge of their offices, the President’s Secretariat said.

Commenting on Bose’s resignation in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she was “shocked and deeply concerned” by the sudden move and that the reasons behind it were not known to her.

Banerjee said on social media that she would not be surprised if Bose had faced pressure from Union Home Minister Amit Shah to “serve certain political interests on the eve of the forthcoming state Assembly elections”.

Banerjee also claimed that Shah informed her that Ravi would be appointed as the next governor of West Bengal.

She alleged that the decision had been taken without consulting the state government “as per the established convention”, and that such actions undermine the spirit of the Constitution and “strike at the very foundation of our federal structure”.

Bose had faced criticism from BJP leaders for his allegedly less confrontational approach towards the Trinamool Congress government in the state, The Indian Express reported. Party leaders, including Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, had also questioned him for being close to the chief minister.

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