Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who also holds additional charge as Lt Governor of Puducherry, resigned from her post on Monday.
She has sent her resignation to the Rashtrapathi Bhavan. She is likely to make a reentry into electoral politics.
She was given additional charge as L-G of Puducherry after incumbent Kiran Bedi was removed. Soundararajan, daughter of veteran Congressman Kumari Ananthan, has been in the BJP for over two decades before she was sent as Governor. Hailing from the influential Nadar community, Tamilisai lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to DMK’s Kanimozhi by a huge margin in Thoothukudi. She is likely to be fielded as a BJP candidate