Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 22 -- Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Rajya Sabha member Om Prakash Mathur will be sworn in as the 29th Governor of Keralam at a ceremony to be held at Lok Bhavan here on October 23.
The oath-taking ceremony is scheduled between 1200 and 1230 hours at the Lok Bhavan Auditorium. Chief Justice of the High Court of Keralam Soumen Sen will administer the oath of office to Mathur.
Mathur, who was earlier the Governor of Sikkim, has been appointed to Keralam as part of a gubernatorial reshuffle. He succeeds Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who has been transferred to Tamil Nadu. Dushyant Gautam has been appointed as the next Governor of Sikkim, following Mathur's transfer.
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