Edited by Deepali Verma
Banwarilal Purohit resigned as Punjab Governor owing to “personal reasons” on February 3. He had been in the office since August 2021.
The resignation came almost a day after Purohit had a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi.
“Citing the personal reasons as well as the certain other commitments, I tender my resignation from the post of the Governor of Punjab and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh. Please accept the same and oblige,” wrote Purohit in his resignation letter addressed to the President Droupadi Murmu.
Purohit, was a three-time MP, elected twice from the Congress and once from the BJP from Nagpur. He held the post of the governor of Tamil Nadu in 2016 and was later appointed as Assam governor in 2017.
He found himself to be engaged in a war of words for long with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab, shooting off a series of letters to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann seeking clarifications on a number of issues as well as even warning that he would recommend President’s rule in the state and launch criminal proceedings if his queries were not answered by Mann.
