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Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi sacked from office

| | 28 Mar 2015, 05:18 pm
New Delhi, Mar 28 (IBNS): The government of India sacked Governor of Mizoram Aziz Qureshi from office.

"The President has directed that Dr. Aziz Qureshi shall cease to hold the office of the Governor of Mizoram," a statement by President's Secretariat said.

President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Keshari Nath Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal, "to discharge the functions of the Governor of Mizoram, in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Mizoram are made."

Qureshi, who had a tenure till May 2017, is the second Governor after Kamla Beniwal to be sacked.

He was earlier shifted to Mizoram months after the Narendra Modi government assumed office.

Qureshi had earlier filed a petitionin the Supreme Court challenging the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s push to make him quit the post.

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