Maharashtra governor SC Jamir given additional charge of Gujarat

Maharashtra Governor SC Jamir will discharge additional duties as Gujarat governor till regular arrangements are made. Jamir today sworn-in as Gujarat Governor at Gandhinagar.

Shri Jamir was welcomed at the Ahmedabad Airport by Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Secretary D.Rajgopalan. He received Guard of Honor by the state.

State assembly speaker Ashok Bhatt, Ministers Narottambhai Patel, Dilip Sanghani, Jaynarayan Vyas, Saurabhbhai Patel, Jaysinhji Chauhan and District Collector Harit Shukla were also present at the airport.

Gujarat’s existing Governor Pandit Nawal Kirhor Sharma’s term ended before more than a week on July 22ns. However he continued to hold the Governor office because newly appointed Governor Shri Devendra Nath Dwivedi is hospitalized in Delhi’s Gangaram Hospital due to ill health. There is no chance that Shri Dwivedi can come to Gujarat to take a charge of Governor office soon because, it appears that his recovery could take at least a fortnight time or more.

Jamir started career as president of Students’ Christian Movement in 1950s

Grandson of Jongshinokdang, who in the late 19th century, had the providential opportunity to meet the American Christian Missionary Rev. W. E. Clark and was instrumental in bringing Christianity to Nagaland, Shri S. C. Jamir is the son of Senayangba Jamir of Ungma village, Mokokchung district of Nagaland and belongs to the Ao Naga Tribe. Born on October 17, 1931, Jamir did his early education in Mokokchung, Calcutta (WB), and higher studies at Allahabad University where he did his BA, LL.B. in 1958.

Sanayangba Chubatoshi Jamir (born October 17 1931) is from Nagaland. He has been involved in politics since his student days when he was studying law at Allahabad University in 1954-57 and had become the president of the Students’ Christian Movement. He was included in a delegation that held talks with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1960 leading to the establishment of Nagaland as a state within India.

He later served as Chief Minister of Nagaland four times (1980, 1982-1986, 1989-90 and 1993-2003). For his first two terms he was a member of the Progressive United Democratic Front, but by 1989 he had switched to the Indian National Congress. He served as Governor of Goa from July 2004 to July 2008.

Jamir married Imkonglemla, daughter of Senkalemba in 1958 and they have been blessed with three sons and two daughters. His younger daughter died in 1996 leaving behind two sons. Shri and Smt. Jamir have ten grand children.

Following the resignation of Maharashtra Governor S. M. Krishna, on March 6, 2008 President Pratibha Patil asked Jamir to temporarily take the additional charge of Maharashtra. Jamir was formally appointed as Governor of Maharashtra on July 8, 2008, while Shivinder Singh Sidhu was appointed to succeed him in Goa.Jamir was sworn in as Governor of Maharashtra on July 19.