New Governors for Haryana, Tripura

By Vinay Kumar

NEW DELHI, JUNE 13. The Vajpayee Government has cleared the names of Mr. Parmanand and Lt-General (Retd). V.R. Raghavan for appointment as Governors of Haryana and Tripura. The present incumbent in Meghalaya, Mr. M.M. Jacob, has been retained for a second term, it is learnt.

The three names have been sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan. The present incumbents - Mr. Mahavir Prasad in Haryana, Prof. Siddheshwar Prasad in Tripura and Mr. Jacob - are completing their terms between June 13 and 18.

The Union Home Ministry initiated the selection process a month ago. While Mr. Parmanand, Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly during Syed Mir Qasim's regime, is a senior BJP leader, Lt-General Raghavan, a former Director-General of Military Operations, is a defence analyst and expert on security affairs. Highly-placed sources said his name was cleared keeping in mind the situation in Tripura where there is a sudden spurt in ethnic strife, militancy, abductions and killings. Two other Governors in the Northeast - Lt-Gen. (Retd.) S.K. Sinha in Assam and Mr. Ved Marwah, a former IPS officer in Manipur - also have similar backgrounds.

The handling of a politically-delicate and unstable situation in Meghalaya by Mr. Jacob appears to have weighed in his favour.

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