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- La Ganesan Iyer (born 16 February 1945) is an Indian politician who serves as the 19th Governor of Nagaland since 20 February 2023. His previous tenures include as the 17th Governor of Manipur between 27 August 2021 and 19 February 2023, the Governor of West Bengal (Additional Charge) between 18 July 2022 and 17 November 2022.
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La Ganesan Iyer (born 16 February 1945) is an Indian politician who serves as the 19th Governor of Nagaland since 20 February 2023. His previous tenures include as the 17th Governor of Manipur between 27 August 2021 and 19 February 2023, the Governor of West Bengal (Additional Charge) between 18 July 2022 and 17 November 2022.
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La. Ganesan was born on Friday, 16 February 1945 (age 77 years; as of 2022) in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency, British India (now Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India). In 1960, La. Ganesan completed his schooling at Veera Raghava High School, Thanjavur. Rajya Sabha’s official website After completing his schooling, La. Ganesan could not purs...
Politics
La. Ganesan, after the death of his father, took up a job in the state government’s Revenue Department as a Revenue Settlement Inspector (RSI) in Tamil Nadu. After working for nine years in the Revenue Department, La. Ganesan resigned from his post and joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Tamil Nadu as a pracharak. His stint with the RSS began when he was very young as his family was deeply involved in the propagation of the ideologies of the Sangh. In 1975, when the Government of...
Governor
On 27 August 2021, La. Ganesan was appointed as the governor of Manipur by President Ram Nath Kovind. On 18 July 2022, La. Ganesan took oath as the Governor (additional charge) of West Bengal.
“Sacrifice the state” row
In 2017, the farmers of the Neduvasal village in Tamil Nadu were protesting against a project of the ONGC. The ONGC had marked an area of ten kilometres in the village to extract natural elements such as methane and hydrocarbon. The area marked by the corporation included the ancestral lands of farmers. In 2017, La. Ganesan, as an MP, gave a controversial remark in support of the extraction of natural elements by the ONGC. He said, The statement didn’t go well with Ganesan.
Assaulting the President of the BJP
In 2020, La. Ganesan was accused of verbally and physically attacking the BJP’s first Dalit President, Kirubanidhi, in the 2003 national party meeting, held in Indore. Kirubanidhi alleged that there was a heated argument over the utilisation of the party funds during which La. Ganesan lost his calm and hurled casteist slurs at the party’s president. Kirubanidhi also alleged that when he tried to stop La. Ganesan from abusing him, La. Ganesan physically attacked him by twisting his arm behind...
La. Ganesan’s approximate salary as the governor of Manipur is Rs 3,50,000 + other allowances (as of July 2022).
In an interview, La. Ganesan once claimed that he did not get married as he wanted to serve RSS and the nation.
Jul 18, 2022 · Ganesan is a former Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. He replaced the former union minister Najma Heptulla as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh. He was...
La. Ganesan sworn-in as 21st governor of Nagaland - Hindustan Times. By Alice Yhoshü. Feb 20, 2023 05:46 PM IST. Read this news in brief form. Ganesan succeeded Prof Jagdish Mukhi, the Governor...
Jul 18, 2022 · La Ganesan on Monday evening took oath as the new governor of West Bengal following the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has been nominated by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as its vice presidential candidate.
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Aug 23, 2021 · CHENNAI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday appointed veteran BJP politician L Ganesan the Governor of Manipur. Ganesan is the fourth Governor from Tamil Nadu after the BJP-led Union government...
Aug 27, 2021 · Former Rajya Sabha member La Ganesan was on Friday sworn in as the 17th Governor of Manipur at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan in Imphal. Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court, PV Sanjay Kumar, administered the oath of office and secrecy to Ganesan.
