SHEILA
DIKSHIT APPOINTED KERALA GOVERNOR
Sheila Dikshit,
a former three-term Chief Minister of Delhi, was appointed Governor of Kerala within three months of her
defeat in the recent Assembly polls.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson on Tuesday night
said that 75-year-old Dikshit succeeds Nikhil Kumar,
a former Delhi Police Commissioner, who resigned on Tuesday.
The resignation of 72-year-old Kumar, who took over as Governor of Kerala in
March last year, has been accepted. Kumar was earlier Governor of Nagaland from
October 2009.
Earlier in the day, Dikshit, a senior Congress leader, had met Union minister
Sushilkumar Shinde and the decision to make her Kerala Governor was conveyed to
her.
The Congress came a poor third bagging eight seats
in a House of 70. Dikshit served as Chief Minister from 1998 to 2013 in
Delhi.
She had also represented Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh
during the period between 1984 and 1989.
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