BJP chief and former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday refuted media reviews claiming that he was being thought-about for the place of recent Governor of Maharashtra and known as it “purely speculative”. However, the 80-year-old leader added that he will follow whatever Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ask him to do.

Reacting to speculations of him being considered for the post of the Governor of Maharashtra, he said, “This is purely speculative. Nobody has contacted me. I know nothing about it. Nobody mentioned anything. I have already informed the Prime Minister, wherever he wants at whatever position I am at his disposal.”

This assertion got here after a number of media reviews claimed that Amarinder Singh is probably going to be appointed the brand new Governor of Maharashtra because the incumbent Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has expressed his need to depart workplace.

Koshyari, who had confronted main controversy and calls by the Opposition in Maharashtra to resign, not too long ago mentioned that he had conveyed his need to be discharged of his duties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In a tweet, the Raj Bhavan mentioned, “During the current go to of the Hon’ble Prime Minister to Mumbai, I’ve conveyed to him my need to be discharged of all political obligations and to spend the rest of my life in studying, writing and different actions. I’ve at all times obtained the love and affection from the Hon’ble Prime Minister and I hope to obtain the identical on this regard.”

Koshyari was appointed the Governor of Maharashtra in September 2019. His remark calling Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj an “old icon” whereas addressing a operate at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in Aurangabad sparked controversy.

Notably, Amarinder Singh had stop the Congress after he was unceremoniously eliminated as Punjab chief minister in 2021 following a bitter energy tussle with occasion chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. Amarinder Singh later floated his personal occasion, the ‘Punjab Lok Congress’ which failed to win any seat within the 2022 Punjab meeting elections. He himself misplaced from his residence turf of Patiala Urban because the AAP scored a landslide victory.

Months later, Amarinder Singh joined the BJP and merged his Punjab Lok Congress with it, saying it was time for him to go to the occasion with “identical ideologies” in commitment towards India’s interests and security.

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