Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banwarilal Purohit submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday, citing personal reasons.
“Due to my personal reasons and certain other commitments, I tender my resignation from the post of governor of Punjab and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh. Please accept the same and oblige,” Purohit wrote in his resignation letter.
Purohit had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Friday.
Their meeting came days after the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the Chandigarh mayoral polls, retaining all three posts, a setback to the Congress-AAP alliance which alleged tampering with ballot papers by the presiding officer.
Purohit, a three-time MP — twice from the Congress and once from the BJP — from Nagpur had earlier served as the governor of Tamil Nadu and Assam. He had been engaged in a war of words for long with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab, shooting off a series of letters to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, seeking clarifications on several issues pertaining to the state.
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