Devendra Nath Dwivedi will be the new Governor of Gujarat

Devendra Nath Dwivedi will be the new Governor of Gujarat
By our correspondent
New Delhi/Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 18 July, 2009



Devendra Nath Dwivedi will be the new Governor of GujaratDevendra Nath Dwivedi will be the new Governor of Gujarat. This was announced by the President House in an official communique on Saturday evening.

Devendra Nath Dwivedi, ex-MP and senior Congress leader, will replace existing Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma who is scheduled to leave his office on July 24.

Dwivedi is presently a permanent invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC). Dwivedi is former general secretary of the Congress party.

In other appointments, senior Congress leader and former Union minister Margaret Alva has been appointed the Governor of Uttrakhand, B.L. Joshi the Governor of Uttar Pradesh and L Shankar Narayanan as the new Governor of Jharkhand.