Hyderabad, March 10 – Telangana's newly appointed Governor, Shiv Pratap Shukla, arrived here on Tuesday.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy received him at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA).
Industries and IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu, Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy, and other senior officials were also present to welcome Shukla.
President Droupadi Murmu appointed Shukla as the Governor of Telangana on Thursday.
He is likely to take oath as the new Governor on Wednesday.
Shukla, who is currently serving as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, will succeed Jishnu Dev Varma, who has been appointed as the Governor of Maharashtra.
Varma assumed the role of Governor of Telangana on July 31, 2024. He was accorded a warm farewell on Monday. Chief Secretary Ramakrishna Rao, Hyderabad District Collector Harichandana Dasari, Special Chief Secretary Dana Kishore, and other officials bid farewell to Varma and his family members.
Shiv Pratap Shukla was sworn in as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh on February 18, 2023.
Born on April 1, 1952, in Rudrapur village of Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh, he was associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) during his student days.
He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1983 and was elected from the Gorakhpur Nagar assembly constituency for the first time in 1989.
He was re-elected in 1991 and took charge as the Minister of State, independent charge, for Basic Education, Adult Education, and the Language Department in the government of Kalyan Singh, the Chief Minister of the first BJP government of Uttar Pradesh. He also held the portfolios of Horticulture, Sports, Youth Welfare, and Food Processing.
After being elected to the assembly for the fourth time in 1996, he served as a Cabinet Minister for Prison, Law and Justice, and Rural Development in the governments of Kalyan Singh, Ram Prakash Gupta, and Rajnath Singh.
In 2016, he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, and in 2017, he took over the responsibility of the Minister of State for Finance in the Modi government. He served as a Rajya Sabha member until July 4, 2022.