{"id":4831,"date":"2026-03-05T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:45:16","slug":"129112818-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=4831","title":{"rendered":"Taranjit Singh Sandhu: Major reshuffle in Raj Bhavans: Ex-envoy Sandhu named Delhi LG, Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi moved to Bengal | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-129113269,imgsize-54686,width-400,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-79.jpg\" alt=\"Major reshuffle in Raj Bhavans: Ex-envoy Sandhu named Delhi LG, Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi moved to Bengal\" title=\"Ex-envoy Sandhu named Delhi LG, Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi moved to Bengal\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cj2hz img_cptn\"><span title=\"Ex-envoy Sandhu named Delhi LG, Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi moved to Bengal\">Ex-envoy Sandhu named Delhi LG, Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi moved to Bengal<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI\/KOLKATA: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/tamil-nadu-governor\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Tamil Nadu governor<\/a> R N Ravi has replaced C V Ananda Bose as the new governor of West Bengal, while former ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu will be the new L-G of Delhi as part of a larger gubernatorial reshuffle.<!-- --> The move to appoint Ravi as Bengal governor immediately came under fire from the CM of the poll-bound state, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mamata-banerjee\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a>. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>The appointment of Ravi, a former IPS officer who had frequent run-ins with the DMK govt, comes days ahead of the announcement of poll dates for Bengal and other states. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>As part of the changes announced by Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, the governor of Kerala, has been given additional charge of TN, while Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd), a well-known security expert, has substituted Arif Mohammad Khan as governor of Bihar, and Jishnu Dev Varma, governor of Telangana, has been appointed as Maharashtra governor.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/> <\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component QbQNS undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Major reshuffle in Raj Bhavans\" msid=\"129112982\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/imgsize-23456,msid-129112982\/major-reshuffle-in-raj-bhavans.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Other changes include UT of Ladakh L-G Kavinder Gupta being elevated to governor of Himachal Pradesh in place of Shiv Pratap Shukla, who has been shifted to Telangana. Current Delhi L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena has been moved to Ladakh as the new L-G. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bjp\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">BJP<\/a> politician and former Bihar Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav is the new Nagaland governor.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Bose, whose tenure was marked by his repeated confrontations with the Mamata-led TMC govt, announced his resignation from Delhi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Didi: Shah didn\u2019t consult me over change of guard<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Mamata said Shah did not consult her over the change of guard \u201cas per established convention\u201d. Ravi has been at odds with the <!-- -->Tamil Nadu<!-- --> govt over a host of issues and his expected transfer to Bengal assumes significance due to Mamata\u2019s vehement protest against the EC\u2019s SIR exercise in the state with polls set to be conducted with the new voters\u2019 list. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>The suddenness of Ananda Bose\u2019s decision was borne out by the fact that a Raj Bhavan social media channel posted his key official engagements on Friday till a few hours before he made the announcement. <!-- -->The engagements included his \u201cpresence\u201d at the \u201cfirst-of-its-kind\u201d Darjeeling Hill Festival, where President Droupadi Murmu would be the chief guest. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>The election-eve choice of Ravi as Bengal\u2019s 24th governor also prompted the CM to claim that \u201csuch actions undermine the spirit of the Constitution of India and strike at the very foundation of our federal structure\u201d. Ravi, known for his confrontations with the Stalin administration, will be stepping into Raj Bhavan just ahead of the assembly election. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/>Bose, as many noted, had been lying low, uncharacteristically, for the last few months, avoiding any fresh tussle with the Bengal government. Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said, \u201cThey (TMC) should stop whining on ethics and morality in a state where the assembly opposition leader has to move the high court 124 times just to hold public meetings.\u201d <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/>Raj Bhavan insiders gave a couple of \u201creasons\u201d for Bose\u2019s decision: ill health and frustration over not being allowed to work by the state administration. It was also becoming increasingly clear in Bengal\u2019s political circles that Bose\u2019s recent non-confrontational approach was not entirely to the liking of the local BJP brass. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"42\"\/>\u201cHe was stymied not by the state administration but by his own actions and inaction,\u201d a BJP senior told TOI.<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/major-reshuffle-in-raj-bhavans-ex-envoy-sandhu-named-delhi-lg-tamil-nadu-governor-ravi-moved-to-bengal\/articleshow\/129112818.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-envoy Sandhu named Delhi LG, Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi moved to Bengal NEW DELHI\/KOLKATA: Tamil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13056,1122,724,13055,13053,723,719,720,721,419,13052,874,13054,13051,722,13057],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bihar-governor","tag-bjp","tag-breaking-news","tag-c-v-ananda-bose","tag-delhi-lg","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-r-n-ravi","tag-tamil-nadu","tag-tamil-nadu-governor","tag-taranjit-singh-sandhu","tag-today-news","tag-west-bengal-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}