BENGALURU: With incumbent Thaawar Chand Gehlot completing five years in office, President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed Kargil War widow and BJP leader Sudha Yadav, 61, next governor of Karnataka.
Yadav, a former MP and member of BJP’s Parliamentary Board, will be the state’s second woman governor after VS Ramadevi, who held office from Dec 1999 to Aug 2002.Yadav holds a doctorate in chemistry from Roorkee University, now IIT-Roorkee. She entered politics after her husband, BSF deputy commandant Sukhbir Singh Yadav, was killed during the 1999 Kargil War.BJP fielded her from Mahendragarh in Haryana in 1999 Lok Sabha elections, which she won. She represented the constituency until 2004.She subsequently served as BJP national secretary and headed its OBC Morcha.She was a member of National Commission for Backward Classes from 2019 to 2022.In Aug 2022, she was inducted into the BJP’s Parliamentary Board, its highest decision-making body.
