Ramesh Bais, the former Governor of Jharkhand and Tripura, has been appointed as the Governor of Maharashtra after President Draupadi Murmu accepted Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s resignation on Sunday.
In 1989, Bais was elected for the first time to the Indian Parliament as a member of the 9th Lok Sabha from Raipur and was re-elected consecutively from 1996 to the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th,15th and 16th Lok Sabha.
In the past, he also served as the Union Minister of State in the second and third Vajpayee ministry holding several portfolios – Steel, Mines, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Information and Broadcasting, and also Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Mines and Environment and Forests till May 2004.
He served as the Governor of Tripura from July 2019 to July 2021 – succeeding Kaptan Singh Solanki.
