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Uttar Pradesh governor BL Joshi resigned from his post on Tuesday, according to Times Now.
BL Joshi's resignation comes amid reports that Modi government has asked 7 UPA-appointed governors to step down.Sources in the government said Union home secretary Anil Goswami had called up seven governors and suggested that they put in their papers.The seven governors who were told to step down are M K Narayanan in West Bengal, Sheila Dikshit in Kerala, Margaret Alva in Rajasthan, Kamla Beniwal in Gujarat, BL Joshi in UP, K Sankaranarayanan in Maharashtra and Devendra Konwar in Tripura. Kerala governor Sheila Dikshit has refused to react on the issue and said she can't react to rumours, the news channel reported.
The BJP called UP governor's resgination a natural course of action. "Resignation is a natural course of action after change in government," UP BJP chief told Times Now Meanwhile, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said the governors should quit on their own, as their appointments were without merit "These governors should have themselves quit. All of these people are appointed because they sat in Sonia Gandhi's durbar and propositioned her. There is no question of any of them coming in on merit," said Swamy.
The Congress, meanwhile, has reacted strongly to reports of governors being shunted out. At least one of the governors is learnt to have turned down the Centre's suggestion saying the government should convey it to her in writing if it wants her to quit before her term runs out. The NDA government is following the example set by the UPA government which, after coming to power in 2004, got rid of BJP appointees in Raj Bhavans, including Vishnukant Shastri (UP), Kailashpati Mishra (Gujarat), Babu Parmananad (Haryana) and Kedarnath Sahni (Goa).
BL Joshi's resignation comes amid reports that Modi government has asked 7 UPA-appointed governors to step down.Sources in the government said Union home secretary Anil Goswami had called up seven governors and suggested that they put in their papers.The seven governors who were told to step down are M K Narayanan in West Bengal, Sheila Dikshit in Kerala, Margaret Alva in Rajasthan, Kamla Beniwal in Gujarat, BL Joshi in UP, K Sankaranarayanan in Maharashtra and Devendra Konwar in Tripura. Kerala governor Sheila Dikshit has refused to react on the issue and said she can't react to rumours, the news channel reported.
The BJP called UP governor's resgination a natural course of action. "Resignation is a natural course of action after change in government," UP BJP chief told Times Now Meanwhile, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said the governors should quit on their own, as their appointments were without merit "These governors should have themselves quit. All of these people are appointed because they sat in Sonia Gandhi's durbar and propositioned her. There is no question of any of them coming in on merit," said Swamy.
The Congress, meanwhile, has reacted strongly to reports of governors being shunted out. At least one of the governors is learnt to have turned down the Centre's suggestion saying the government should convey it to her in writing if it wants her to quit before her term runs out. The NDA government is following the example set by the UPA government which, after coming to power in 2004, got rid of BJP appointees in Raj Bhavans, including Vishnukant Shastri (UP), Kailashpati Mishra (Gujarat), Babu Parmananad (Haryana) and Kedarnath Sahni (Goa).
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