Sheila Dikshit appointed Kerala Governor

Sheila Dikshit, a former three-term Chief Minister of city, was nowadays appointed Governor of Kerala among 3 months of her defeat within the recent Assembly polls. extremely placed sources aforesaid tonight that the choice has been sent to 75-year-old Dikshit, WHO can succeed Nikhil Kumar, a former city commissioner.

Dikshit, a senior Congress leader, met Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde within the morning and also the call to form her Kerala Governor was sent to her.

Nikhil Kumar is resigning and is predicted to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Aurangabad seat in province, that he had won in 2004.

During the city Assembly elections in Gregorian calendar month last, Dikshit suffered Associate in Nursing disgraceful defeat from capital of India seat at the hands of Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal, WHO succeeded Dikshit and has since resigned over the Gregorian calendar month Lokpal issue, won by quite twenty two,000 votes. The Congress came a poor third material eight seats in an exceedingly House of seventy. Dikshit served as Chief Minister from 1998 to 2013 in city. 

She had conjointly depicted Kannauj Parliamentary body of state throughout the amount between 1984 and 1989. 

RJD President Lalu Prasad visited Nikhil Kumar's range in Patna setting off speculation of his contesting the Aurangabad Parliamentary seat. RJD and Congress sources confirmed the visit of Prasad to hunt the blessings of Kumar's mother Kishori Sinha and to satisfy the Kerala Governor. Kumar is son of veteran Congress leader and former province chief minister Satyendra Narayan Singh.  Kumar couldn't be contacted as his mobile was converted. He had lost the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from Aurangabad to Sushil Kumar Singh.

Aurangabad with an awesome population of Rajputs is popularly known as 'Chittorgarh of Bihar'. The alliance between Congress and RJD is nonetheless to be formalised when RJD chief offered eleven seats to Congress and one to NCP and wanted a final response.

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