PANAJI: The President on Tuesday appointed P S Sreedharan Pillai as governor of Goa. Pillai, who is currently governor of Mizoram, is a former state president of the Kerala BJP.
With Pillai’s appointment, Goa gets a full-time governor after almost a year. After the last full-time governor, Satya Pal Malik, was transferred to Meghalaya, Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was given additional charge of the state last year.
Malik, who was governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir before its reorganisation, became popular in Goa, and was proactive and outspoken about several relevant issues, including the state government’s mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis during the first wave.
He had warned CM Pramod Sawant that New Delhi was keeping close watch on Goa’s Covid situation, and advised Sawant to “pull up his socks”.
