The president of India has appointed Former Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel as the governor of Madhya Pradesh.
She replaces Om Prakash Kohli, who has additional charge of the office of MP Governor along with the office of Gujarat Governor.
She has become the second BJP leader from the state to be appointed as Governor after Vajubhai Vala, currently Karnataka Governor.
Patel was first woman chief minister of Gujarat and she will be the first woman governor from Gujarat.
She was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1994. In 1998, she became education minister of Gujarat. She retained the portfolio after being re-elected in 2002 from Patan. In 2012, Patel shifted Ghatlodia in Ahmedabad.