Sheila Dikshit appointed Kerala governor
March 05, 2014  07:49
Sheila Dikshit, a former three-term chief minister of Delhi, was on Tuesday night appointed governor of Kerala within three months of her defeat in the recent Assembly polls.

A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said that 75-year-old Dikshit succeeds Nikhil Kumar, a former Delhi police commissioner, who resigned today. The resignation of 72-year-old Kumar, who took over as Governor of Kerala in March last year, has been accepted.

Kumar was earlier governor of Nagaland from October 2009. Earlier in the day, Dikshit, a senior Congress leader, had met Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and the decision to make her Kerala Governor was conveyed to her.
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