Overview

• Raju, 74, a Telugu Desam Party veteran and former civil aviation minister under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, assumed the governorship on July 25 at 11:30 am.
• The ceremony at Raj Bhavan was attended by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and other senior state dignitaries.
• He succeeds P S Sreedharan Pillai, who ended his term with a farewell event distributing discretionary funds to 38 cancer and dialysis patients.
• President Droupadi Murmu announced Raju’s appointment on July 14 as part of a wider reshuffle filling vacancies in Goa, Ladakh and Haryana.
• Pramod Sawant lauded Pillai for opening Raj Bhavan to the public and supporting the effective administration of Goa.