India, March 6 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday evening appointed former diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu as the new lieutenant governor of Delhi and shifted retired IPS officer RN Ravi from Tamil Nadu to West Bengal, as part of a wider reshuffle across nine regions that came just weeks before high-stakes assembly elections.

Ravi will succeed CV Ananda Bose, whose resignation was accepted by the President, a communique issued by her office said.

Delhi's lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena was appointed the lieutenant governor of Ladakh, and the current incumbent of Lok Niwas in the Union Territory, Kavinder Gupta, was shifted to Himachal Pradesh.

Sandhu, a former Indian ambassador to the US, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party an...