Rosaiah is new TN Governor,Farook shifted to Kerala

Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah was on Friday appointed as the new Governor of Tamil Nadu. According to a government communique,the President has also appointed former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Ram Naresh Yadav as Governor of Madhya Pradesh,Congress leader and former Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Vakkom Purushothaman as Governor of Mizoram and former Maharashtra minister Syed Ahmed as Governor of Jharkhand.

The President has also shifted Jharkhand Governor M O H Farook to Kerala while Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan will also hold additional charge of Goa.

Rosaiah,78,replaces Surjit Singh Barnala who took over the post on June 20,2006. Rosaiah,finance minister in the Y S Rajashekhara Reddy Cabinet,was appointed Andhra Pradesh chief minister on September 3,2009 after the death of Reddy in a helicopter crash. However,he was removed on November 24,2010 after the demand for a separate state of Telangana resulted in violent protests.

Ram Naresh Yadav (83) from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh was the chief minister of the state from 1977 to 79 as Janata Party MLA. He had contested the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from Azamgarh on the Congress ticket but lost.