On 19 March 2024, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, gave the additional charge of Telangana Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry to the
Jharkhand Governor CP Radhakrishnan. The incumbent Governor of Telangana and the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Tamilisai Soundararajan, resigned and submitted her resignation letter to the President on 18 March 2024. Tamilisai Soundararajan is likely to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
President Droupadi Murmu later accepted Soundararajan's resignation and gave the additional charge to CP Radhakrishnan.
Before being appointed as the Governor of Telangana, Tamilisai Soundararajan was the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ( BJP) Tamil Nadu unit for five years.
Soundararajan was later made the Governor of Telangana in November 2019 and was later given additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
She contested the last Lok Sabha elections held in 2019 as a BJP candidate from Thoothukudi but lost to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) Kanimozhi.
Tamil Nadu has 39 Lok Sabha seats, 7 of which are reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The 2024 Lok Sabha election will be held on 19 April in all 39 constituencies.
In the 2019 elections, the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance won all 39 seats in the state.
Appointment and Tenure of Governor
Qualification to be a Governor
The person to be appointed as the Governor of a state shall have the following qualifications. They shall be :
A person can be appointed as Governor more than once.