Satya Pal Malik appointed as new the Governor of Meghalaya

The Governor of Goa, Satya Pal Malik, has been appointed as the new Governor of Meghalaya.

Present Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik has been appointed as the new Governor of Meghalaya by President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday. He will be taking over from Tathagata Roy who completed his 5-year tenure. Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari will be given the additional duty of Goa.

This is Malik’s second move in 2 years, he was appointed as the Governor of Goa on October 2019 and before that he was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir when Article 370 was scraped. Malik had some disagreements with the Chief Minister of Goa on the COVID-19 situation in the state.

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He had also denied the statement given by the CM who said that Malik has said that media was giving wrong information about Coronavirus in the state.”This is a big impropriety on part of Chief Minister. I have never said anything against media, print media or social media. Media is our strength and it informs us about lacunas”, Malik said according to news agency ANI.

He had also previously faced some controversies during his stint in Jammu and Kashmir too, before moving to Goa.