Prasad will be sworn-in by the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Dinesh Maheshwari in the presence of chief minister and his cabinet at 4 pm. (Twitter/ANI)
The swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed Governor of Meghalaya, Ganga Prasad, will be held on October 5 at the Raj Bhavan here, officials said today. Prasad will be sworn-in by the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Dinesh Maheshwari in the presence of chief minister and his cabinet at 4 pm, they said. The former member of Bihar Legislative Council Ganga Prasad was appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya by President Ram Nath Kovind on September 30.
Prasad has been a member of the legislative council in Bihar for 18 years. He was a businessman by profession, joined politics as a Jan Sangh member in 1967 and held various organisational posts in it as well as in the BJP. His son Sanjeev Chaurasia is a BJP MLA from Digha constituency in Bihar’s Patna district.
