Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik has been appointed as the new Governor of Meghalaya, a statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Tuesday.
Satya Pal Malik was Governor of Jammu and Kashmir when its special status under Article 370 was abrogated last August, and replaced Tathagata Roy in Meghalaya. Tathagata Roy who completed his five-year tenure on the gubernatorial post. “The above appointments will take effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices,” said the communique from Rashtrapati Bhavan.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said Malik has been shifted to Meghalaya, and Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been asked to discharge the functions of Goa governor in addition to his own duties. Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been given the additional charge of Goa, it added.
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There is no fixed tenure for governors, but conventionally it is considered for a period of five years. There have been examples in the past where governors have served for a longer period like that of E S L Narasimhan, who served continuously for 12 years in Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh (undivided) and later in Telangana.
Roy, who would turn 75 next month, had stoked a controversy last year when he supported a tweet by a retired army official calling for banning of Kashmiri goods in the aftermath of an attack on the CRPF convoy that killed 40 security personnel.
As the news of the new appointment reached Shillong, Roy tweeted, “Upon receipt of news from Rashtrapati Bhavan I spoke to Shri Satyapal Malikji, the new Governor-Designate and welcomed him to Shillong. It may take him a little time to come here.”
“I was supposed to have been relieved on 20th May. Now the end of the road.” Roy was appointed governor of Meghalaya in August 2018 and continued till date, barring absence between December 2019 to January 2020 when he was on leave.
