By IANS
Hyderabad : Former Uttarakhand chief minister N.D. Tiwari will take charge as Andhra Pradesh governor in a couple of days, official sources said here.
Tiwari was Sunday named governor of the Congress-ruled state. Sources at the Raj Bhavan, the governor’s official residence, said Tiwari would assume office in a day or two.
The state has been without a full-time governor for 19 months since Sushil Kumar Shinde resigned in January 2006 to become the central power minister.
Rameswar Thakur, the governor of Orissa, was holding additional charge since then. Thakur has now been appointed the Karnataka governor.
Tiwari, 82, was Uttarakhand chief minister from 2002 till early this year when the Congress lost power there. He served as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh four times. He was elected nine times to the Uttar Pradesh assembly.
A post-graduate from Allahabad University and a law graduate, Tiwari was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980 and became a minister in Indira Gandhi’s cabinet. A freedom fighter, he was nominated as member of the Congress Working Committee in 1993 and became president of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit in 1994.