President Droupadi Murmu appoints six Governors; check full list of state appointments

President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed six Governors including four new appointees and two incumbents who have been transferred to new states assigning fresh responsibilities to senior political leaders and experienced public representativesThe appointments include four new Governors Dr Sudha Yadav Dhal Singh Bisen Braj Mohan Ram and Dushyant Kumar Gautam while Om Prakash Mathur and Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar have been transferred from their existing gubernatorial assignments to new statesThe appointments bring leaders with extensive political organisational legislative and grassroots experience to constitutional positionsOf the six leaders appointed or assigned new gubernatorial responsibilities three belong to Scheduled Caste communities and two to Other Backward Classes OBCs according to the profiles provided The four newly appointed Governors are senior BJP leaders who have served the party in various organisational capacities at the local state and national levels for periods ranging from 25 to 45 years IANS reportedUnder the reshuffle Sikkim Governor Om Prakash Mathur has been appointed Governor of Kerala while incumbent Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has been appointed Governor of Tamil NaduBraj Mohan Ram has been appointed Governor of Odisha Dr Sudha Yadav Governor of Karnataka Dhal Singh Bisen Governor of Uttarakhand and Dushyant Kumar Gautam Governor of SikkimDr Sudha Yadav Academic background and public serviceDr Sudha Yadav an OBC leader belonging to the Yadav community of Haryana brings a background of public service political experience and academic distinctionShe is the widow of BSF Deputy Commandant Sukhbir Singh Yadav who was killed during the Kargil War Following her husbands death she entered public life and went on to represent Mahendragarh in the Lok Sabha She is also a member of the BJP Parliamentary Board IANS reportedYadav holds an MSc and a PhD in Chemistry from IIT Roorkee She served as a member of the National Commission for Backward Classes from 2019 to 2022Her appointment recognises her contributions to public life and the OBC community as well as the sacrifice made by the families of personnel who laid down their lives in the service of the nationDushyant Kumar Gautam Longstanding organisational experienceGautam a Dalit leader belonging to the Chamar community and hailing from Delhi has spent nearly five decades in organisational work associated with the RSS and the BJP with a particular focus on advancing the interests of Scheduled Castes IANS reportedHe has served as the BJPs national general secretary and as the national president of the partys Scheduled Caste Morcha Rising through the organisational ranks he began his electoral career as a councillor in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and subsequently became a Rajya Sabha memberHis appointment recognises his longstanding contribution to grassroots politics party organisation and public life as well as his work among Dalit communitiesDhal Singh Bisen Decades of legislative and administrative experienceBisen an OBC leader belonging to the Bhoyar Pawar community of Madhya Pradesh brings decades of legislative and administrative experience to his new assignment IANS reportedA fourtime MLA and former Lok Sabha member from Balaghat he has also served as a Cabinet Minister in the Madhya Pradesh government handling important portfolios including school education forests transport and minesHe also chaired the Fourth State Finance Commission of Madhya Pradesh An Ayurveda practitioner by profession Bisen has a keen interest in Indian systems of medicine and their convergence with modern medicineHis appointment recognises his nearly five decades of association with the BJP and his long record of public serviceBraj Mohan Ram Legislative career and grassroots workRam a Dalit leader belonging to the Dhobi community and hailing from Jharkhand comes from a farming family and has a long record of legislative and social service IANS reportedHe served as an MLA in undivided Bihar before being elected to the Lok Sabha from Palamu on three occasions in 1996 1998 and 1999In addition to his electoral career he has served as the incharge of the State Scheduled Caste Morcha and has been associated with the Dhobi Mahasangh He has also worked towards establishing educational institutions in ChandwaHis appointment recognises his contribution to grassroots leadership the empowerment of Dalit communities and decades of legislative and social workWith IANS inputs