URMILAben CHIMANBHAI PATEL:NEW HIMACHAL GOV

congress leader from Gujarat Urmila Chimanbhai Patel is all set to to be the next Governor of Himachal.

well, we just congratulated Siddharth patel and Urmilaben and they said they had no concrete news yet but our sources in Delhi tell us that it is for sure Urmilaben will be the next Himachal gov

Urmilaben is the mother of present Gujarat Cong president Sidharth Patel.

A woman of substance, she assisted her husband late Chimanbhai Patel and made her foray in politics while he was alive.

Dr. Urmilaben Patel(Phd)’s political career came into limelight when she contested an election of Jamnagar Lok Sabha seat in 1991 which she lost to BJP.

Urmilaben was nominated from the Rajyasabha. She then became(10 February 1995) a Minister of State for Power in P.V.Narsimharao’s ministry. Patel was not re-elected to Rajya Sabha after her term ended, but was given a ticket to contest Vadodara Lok Sabha seat in 1999. However she was again defeated by rival BJP candidate, this time – Jayaben Thakkar. Urmilaben was also a Special Invitee in Congress Working Committee after 90s.

For last several years, she was associated with several NGOs. Her son Siddharth Patel, MLA of Dabhoi assembly constituency became Gujarat Congress President in July 2008.

Other new Governor names are

the safari savvy Shivraj Patil : Punjab

National Security Adviser M K Narayanan as Governor of West Bengal,

former Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt for Chhattisgarh

E S L Narasimhan (Chhatisgarh gov)moves to Andhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan, senior Congress leader Mohsina Kidwai will go to Jharkhand for from where K Sankaranarayan will be being shifted to Maharashtra.

Official announcement to be made in next few hours, d Facto sources claimed.