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New Meghalaya governor to be sworn-in on Thursday

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Press Trust of India Shillong
The swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed Governor of Meghalaya, Ganga Prasad, will be held on October 5 at the Raj Bhavan here, officials said today.

Prasad will be sworn-in by the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Dinesh Maheshwari in the presence of chief minister and his cabinet at 4 pm, they said.

The former member of Bihar Legislative Council Ganga Prasad was appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya by President Ram Nath Kovind on September 30.

Prasad has been a member of the legislative council in Bihar for 18 years.

He was a businessman by profession, joined politics as a Jan Sangh member in 1967 and held various organisational posts in it as well as in the BJP.
 

His son Sanjeev Chaurasia is a BJP MLA from Digha constituency in Bihars Patna district.

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First Published: Oct 02 2017 | 8:02 PM IST

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