Tamilisai Soundararajan quits as Telangana Governor, likely to contest Lok Sabha elections

Mangalore Today News Network

Hyderabad, Mar 18, 2024: Tamilisai Soundararajan on Monday resigned as the Governor of Telangana and the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. While the sudden decision has come as a surprise, Soundararajan, 62, is expected to return to electoral politics and contest Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Tamil Nadu.

 

A press release from the Telangana Raj Bhavan stated, “The Hon’ble Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Dr. Smt. Tamilisai Soundararajan has tendered her resignation with immediate effect. The resignation has been submitted to the Hon’ble President of India.”

In September 2019, Soundararajan, the then-state president of the Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP for five years, took to the office of Telangana Governor and later took additional charge as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry in February 2021.

As per her engagements for Monday, Soundararajan, who has served as the second Governor of Telangana, was scheduled to see off Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his public rally in Jagtial and virtually attend an event held by National Security and Strategic Studies.

Soundararajan is the daughter of former Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president Kumari Anandan and niece of H Vasanthakumar, a businessman and politician. A physician by profession, she began her career as a gynaecologist and has special training in sonology and fetal therapy.

Soundararajan served in the BJP’s state unit as the South Chennai District medical wing secretary in 1999, state general secretary of the medical wing in 2001, All India co-convenor (medical wing for southern states) in 2005, state general secretary in 2007, and state vice-president in 2010. She was elevated to the post of national secretary in 2013.

Courtesy: Indian Express