New Delhi: Former Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla has been appointed the new Governor of Manipur.
Ajay Kumar Bhalla is a 1984-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre who served as the Union Home Secretary from August 2019 to August 2024.
Bhalla was born on November 26, 1960 in Jalandhar in Punjab. He completed his Master of Science degree in Botany from the University of Delhi. He did his MBA from the University of Queensland in Australia.
Experts are of the opinion that Bhalla’s tenure at the Home Ministry will serve him well in his new posting as the Governor of the state which is going through a volatile period.
The former Home Secretary will replace Anusuiya Uikey. Bhalla served in Meghalaya as Commissioner of different departments, and has fair knowledge on the dynamics of ethnic politics in Northeast India.
The President also appointed Governors for four other states.
VK Singh, a retired Army Chief and a former minister in the previous Narendra Modi-led government, has been appointed the new Mizoram Governor.
There has been a swap of states for Governors of Kerala and Bihar – Arif Mohammed, the Kerala Governor, will now be the Governor of Bihar, and Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Bihar, will take charge of Kerala.
Hari Babu Kambhampati, Governor of Mizoram, has been appointed as the Governor of Odisha.
