Hyderabad, March 5 -- Shiv Pratap Shukla, currently serving as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has been appointed the new Governor of Telangana in a major reshuffle announced by the President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday night, March 5.

Incumbent Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has been transferred to Maharashtra as part of major gubernatorial appointments, a communique issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

Who is Shiv Pratap Shukla?

Shukla, 73, is a veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician from Uttar Pradesh who served as Minister of State for Finance in the Narendra Modi government from 2017 to 2019. He was also a Rajya Sabha member representing Uttar Pradesh.

Born on April 1, 1952, in Rudrapur in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria ...