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Rajasthan MLA likely to be Puducherry Governor

JAIPUR: In less than a fortnight after the former Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur took oath as the Governor of Assam, another senior Congress politician, Govind Singh Gujjar, is being tipped for the post of the Lt. Governor of Puducherry. Mr. Gujjar, who is MLA from Nasirabad in Ajmer district, is to be the second person from Rajasthan, after Ramkishore Vyas, to be the Lt. Governor of Puducherry.

Mr. Gujjar, once a close ally of the late Gujjar leader Rajesh Pilot, had kept a tactical silence during the recent violent agitation by the Gujjar community in the State demanding the ST status. Mr. Gujjar, even while favouring the demand, remained within the party discipline. With his appointment Rajasthan will have five persons from here as Governors. “I am looking forward to the assignment,” Mr. Gujjar, who was made Minister for the first time during the tenure of Mr. Mathur as Chief Minister between July 19,1981 and February 23, 1985, said.

He was again a Minister under Mr. Mathur from January 26, 1988 to December 3, 1989. He served a third term as Minister during the previous Government’s rule in the State.

“I am waiting for the President’s warrant on my appointment to reach me to decide on the date of oath,” Mr. Gujjar said while talking to The Hindu on Saturday. The appointment has been communicated to him from the Congress president’s office as well. “It is a good place. I have been there before,” he said referring to Puducherry.

Mr. Gujjar said Puducherry would be a new experience for him with its French past, Tamil population and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Besides Mr. Mathur, who took oath on July 4, the serving Governors from Rajasthan are; Nawal Kishore Sharma (Gujarat), Balram Jakhar (Madhya Pradesh) and B.L. Joshi (Uttaranchal).

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