Mizoram governor Kummanam Rajasekharan has resigned from his post and President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted his resignation.
Rajasekharan’s resignation comes in the wake of the BJP’s Kerala unit asking the party leadership to recall him and make him a candidate from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
An official communique from the President’s office said that Rajasekharan’s resignation had been accepted and Governor of Assam, Prof Jagdish Mukhi has been given additional charge of the Mizoram, “in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Mizoram is made”.
Talk about Rajasekharan’s resignation had been doing the rounds earlier. A senior BJP leader had said that the former Mizoram governor was willing to return if the party leadership gave him the nod. Rajasekharan, who was governor of Mizoram for barely nine months, a former RSS pracharak, was a surprise choice to the post of state president of the party in 2015.
During his three-year tenure he led the party well and managed to open an account in the state assembly for the first time but could not rein in the mounting factionalism within the party. In May 2018, he was unceremoniously removed as party president and sent to Mizoram as its governor.