After the resignation of V Shanmuganathan as Governor of Meghalaya and AP, current Assam governor Banwarilal Purohit has been given additional charge of Meghalaya.
Purohit was elected in the Maharashtra Assembly as a member of Congress in 1979 and 1980. After this, the party sent him to the Lok Sabha.
In 1984, he was elected to the 8th Lok Sabha as Congress MP.
He was re-elected in 1989 on the same ticket.
He was expelled from the Congress after he took part in Kar Seva in Ayodhya.
He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1991 after the party launched its movement to build a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, and contested Lok Sabha elections in 1991 as the party’s candidate.
The current governor is also the ME of The Hitavada, an English daily founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1911.
He is a known name in the Marwari community in Vidarbha.
He also heads the Shri Ramdeobaba Sarvajanik Samiti which takes care of various social, religious and educational programmes.
Meghalaya Government: Know More- Governor: Banwarilal Purohit
- Chief Minister: Mukul Sangma (INC)
- Legislature: Unicameral (60 seats)
- Parliamentary constituency: Rajya Sabha (1), Lok Sabha (2)
- High Court: Meghalaya High Court
