{"id":287099,"date":"2018-05-26T00:56:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=287099"},"modified":"2018-05-26T00:56:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:26:41","slug":"president-ram-nath-kovind-appoints-governors-for-odisha-and-mizoram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-ram-nath-kovind-appoints-governors-for-odisha-and-mizoram\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ram Nath Kovind Appoints Governors For Odisha And Mizoram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday appointed Haryana BJP leader Ganeshi Lal and Kerala BJP Chief Kummanam Rajasekharan as Governors of Odisha and Mizoram, respectively, as per an official statement.<br \/>\nGaneshi Lal, a BJP leader from Haryana, is currently Chairman of BJP\u2019s Disciplinary Committee. He was a minister under Chief Minister Bansi Lal from 1996-99.<br \/>\nKummanam Rajasekharan will be replacing\u00a0Lieutenant General (retd) Nirbhay Sharma who is completing his tenure on May 28.\u00a0Rajasekharan began his career as a volunteer with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the 1970s. He has been the president of Kerala BJP since December 18, 2015.<br \/>\nUnder his leadership, the party opened its account in Kerala by winning the Nemom seat in 2016. The BJP had then come second in seven constituencies. Rajasekharan had himself contested from Vattiyoorkavu constituency but ended up second.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday appointed Haryana BJP leader Ganeshi Lal and Kerala BJP Chief Kummanam Rajasekharan as Governors of Odisha and Mizoram, respectively, as per an official statement. Ganeshi Lal, a BJP leader from Haryana, is currently Chairman of BJP\u2019s Disciplinary Committee. He was a minister under Chief Minister Bansi Lal from 1996-99. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}