Chennai: Tamilnadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, who has been appointed as the Governor of Punjab, has left for that State. He was accorded a warm send-off by Raj Bhavan staff in Chennai.
Last evening, Chief Minister M K Stalin, Ministers, Leader of Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami and others met him and greeted on his new assignment.
Meanwhile, Purohit’s successor RN Ravi, who was transferred from Nagaland, is expected to assume office in the coming days.
In his farewell message to the people of Tamilnadu, Purohit said ‘my mind is filled with a sense of gratitude to the State of Tamilnadu where I found unmitigated love and appreciation from the people in general, the bureaucracy, the academia, and most importantly the political community across a wide spectrum.’
‘Yes, there were many issues that tested everybody’s patience and perseverance as well as sense of commitment and goodwill, but the end result was always positive for all sections’, he said, adding, there were points at which different sections stood on the opposite sides of the divide.
He said the State also saw major electoral battles for the Lok Sabha elections and then for the Legislative Assembly elections. Despite all that political acrimony, he found the State and its people very warm and welcoming.