Haryana gets new Governor; Prof. Ashim Ghosh named for the top post
Haryana gets new Governor; Prof. Ashim Ghosh named for the top post
Prof. Ghosh will be the 3rd ‘Bengali’ to hold Gubernatorial post in Haryana
Delhi Crown Bureau
New Delhi: Noted academician and former West Bengal BJP president Prof. Ashim Kumar Ghosh was on Monday appointed as the next Governor of Haryana. He will be 19th Governor of the state, and the 3rd ‘Bengali’ to hold the top post.
Earlier, Governors – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (September 1967 to March 1976) and Hari Anand Barari (February 1988 till February 1990), too hailed from West Bengal.
Prof. Ghosh will replace Bandaru Dattareya who served the post for 4 years.
The new Governor taught Political Science in West Bengal for 38 years. He joined the BJP in 1991, and remained the West Bengal state president from 1999 till 2002.
In June 2013 he unsuccessfully contested a bye-election from the Howrah Lok Sabha seat. And, since then Prof. Ghosh had been living in oblivion.
According to the BJP’s insiders in West Bengal, for the past several years Prof. Ghosh was sidelined within the party. Present state president Saamik Bhattacharya had forwarded Ghosh’s name for the top post in Haryana. When Asim Kumar Ghosh was the West Bengal BJP President, Bhattacharya served as General Secretary under him.
“It’s worth noting that Samik is currently advocating for positions according to stature for previously neglected party leaders in West Bengal,” said a media report. Notably, West Bengal goes to next Assembly Polls in 2026.
With less than one year left, the state’s BJP president is seemingly leaving no stone unturned to re-energise the veteran leaders in a bid to fill a new vigour in the party ahead of the polls.
