Banwarilal Purohit may have resigned as Governor of Punjab. Before being appointed to the Raj Bhavan in Punjab, Mr. Purohit had served as Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021.

• On February 3, a day after he held a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Mr. Purohit tendered his resignation as Punjab’s Governor and the Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
• The resignation comes amid a word of war between Purohit and the ruling AAP government in Punjab. He had written a series of letters to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann seeking clarifications on several issues pertaining to the state.
• A three-time MP (twice from the Congress and once from the BJP) from Nagpur, Purohit had earlier served as the governor of Tamil Nadu and Assam.