Here’s all you need to know about Meghalaya’s new Governor Banwarilal Purohit
The current governor is also the Managing Editor of The Hitavada, an English daily which was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1911
A day after V Shanmuganathan decided to step down as Governor of Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh after he allegedly molested a job aspirant and turned the governor house into “a club of young ladies”, the current Assam Governor, Banwarilal Purohit has been given the additional charge of Meghalaya.
Here are a few things you should know about Banwarilal:
- Purohit was elected in the Maharashtra Assembly as a member of Congress in 1979 and 1980, after which the party sent him to the Lok Sabha.
- In 1984, he was elected to the 8th Lok Sabha as Congress MP and was re-elected in 1989 on the same ticket. However, he was expelled from the Congress after he took part in Kar Seva in Ayodhya.
- He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1991 after the party launched its movement to build a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, and contested Lok Sabha elections in 1991 as the party’s candidate. However, he lost to Congress’ Datta Meghe.
- The current governor is also the Managing Editor of The Hitavada, an English daily which was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1911.
- The former MP is a very known name in the Marwari community in Vidarbha and also heads the Shri Ramdeobaba Sarvajanik Samiti which takes care of various social, religious and educational programmes.