Jishnu Dev Varma, who is taking oath as Telangana’s new Governor on Wednesday, said any opposition party is not an enemy. Soon after taking oath in Hyderabad Raj Bhavan, he will attend Governors’ conference in the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi on Thursday.
Ahead of reaching Hyderabad to take charge as Governor, speaking to a news agency in Agartala for being appointed in a Congress-ruled state, the veteran BJP leader said “The Congress is democratically elected in the state (Telangana). As a Constitutional head of the state, I would discharge my constitutional responsibility in consultation with the Chief Minister.”
He asserted that it is not possible to run governments by BJP in every state. In a democracy, he said that somewhere Congress will govern, Shiv Sena, Trinamool Congress, and other parties may run the governments.
Jishnu Dev Varma, a member of the erstwhile Tripura royal family and also former deputy chief minister of the state, recalled that the Prime Minister also always advocates for healthy democratic activities.
He that he would work in the state (Telangana) in coordination with the state government. He added that his experience in Tripura would be utilised in Telangana and his understanding of that state (Telangana) can also be useful in Tripura as well.
Thanking President Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for appointing him as the Governor of an important state, Dev Varma, an author of several books, said that for the first time since independence, a leader from Tripura has been appointed as the Governor.
Earlier, leaders from other northeastern states, including Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland, were appointed Governors, Dev Varma added. He has been associated with BJP since 1990s and actively participated in Ram Janmabhoomi agitation.
He served as Tripura’s Deputy Chief Minister from 2018 till 2023. In the 2018 Assembly elections, when BJP wrested power in Tripura defeating the CPI(M) after 25 years, Dev Varma was elected to the Assembly from the Charilam constituency in Sepahijala district, but he lost the seat to Tipra Motha Party in the 2023 Assembly polls.
Incidentally, present Tripura Governor N Indrasena Reddy as a veteran BJP leader from Telangana.
