 Maharashtra governor K. Sankaranarayanan resigned on Sunday, refusing to accept an order from President Pranab Mukherjee’s office transferring him to Mizoram for the rest of his tenure. According to a senior official at the governor’s office who declined to be identified, Sankaranarayan preferred to return to his home state rather than accepting the “humiliating transfer order”. Sankaranarayanan is a senior Congress party leader from Kerala, who has served as the state’s finance minister. Earlier last month, Sankaranarayanan had refused to accept advice from Union home secretary Anil Goswami to resign, saying he would quit only if asked by the President. Manikrao Thakre, president of the state unit of the Congress party, said the decision to transfer Sankaranarayanan was politically motivated, adding the decision was taken “with impending elections to state assembly in mind”. State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Devendra Fadnavis denied the charge: “Transfers of governors is routine administrative exercise and there is no need to attach motives to it,” he said. Read more at: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/F9S8grbTbT3upxEL3NLrrM/Centre-transfers-Maharashtra-governor-to-Mizoram.html?utm_source=copy |