Srinagar, July 14:In a significant political move, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Kavinder Gupta, has been appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
The announcement was made on Sunday evening through a communiqué issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.Gupta, a veteran BJP leader becomes the first Jammu-born politician to assume the top constitutional post in the Union Territory since Ladakh was carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019.
