BS Koshyari's resignation proposal opens up another gubernatorial post

Maharashtra will not be the only state that will have a vacancy

One more position of Governor may have opened up with the announcement by Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari that he wants to be relieved of his position and retire from politics to ‘do reading and writing’. Koshyari revealed in Mumbai on Monday that he had conveyed this to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was in Mumbai for a brief stop last week.

Koshyari has served just about three years (he was appointed in 2019) of a normal five-year tenure of a Governor. However, those three years have been eventful and even till a few days ago, the opposition Uddhav Thackeray-led