New governor to be sworn in on Wednesday

GANDHINAGAR: Kailashpati Mishra will be sworn in as the new governor of the state by acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court J N Bhatt at a function in the Town Hall here on Wednesday evening.
Mishra, a senior BJP leader, will be received at the airport by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his Cabinet colleagues and senior officials.
The swearing in ceremony will begin at 5 pm.Meanwhile, Sundar Singh Bhandari, who was so far holding the gubernatorial post for the last four years, has left for New Delhi as his term expired on March 26. He was seen off at the airport by Modi and senior functionaries of the BJP and the RSS.
Those who had held the Gujarat governor’s post in the past were Mehdi Nawaz Jung, Nityanand Kanungo, P N Bhagvati, Dr Shrimannarayan, K K Vishwanathan, Sharda Mukerjee, K M Chandi, B K Nehru, R K Trivedi, Mahipal Shastri, Dr Swarup Singh, Naresh Chandra, Krishnapal Singh, Anshuman Singh, K G Balkrishnan and S S Bhandari.