Vinai Kumar Saxena has been named as the new lieutenant governor of Delhi. The announcement was made by President Ram Nath Kovind’s office on Monday.
“The President of India has been pleased to appoint Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena to be the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his duties,” Ajay Kumar Singh, the President’s press secretary, said in a statement.
“The President of India has accepted the resignation of Shri Anil Baijal as Lt. Governor National Capital Territory of Delhi,” the statement further stated.
Baijal, Delhi’s twenty-first LG, resigned on May 18 citing ‘personal reasons.’
The newly appointed LG is the current chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, an organisation under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He was born on March 23, 1958, and is a Kanpur University alumnus with a Pilot license.
In March 2021, Saxena was appointed by the Union government as a member of the national committee to commemorate 75 years of India’s independence. In November 2020, he was nominated as a member of the Padma Awards selection panel for the year 2021.
In 1984, Vinay Kumar Saxena joined the well-known JK Group in Rajasthan as an assistant officer. In the group’s white cement plant in the state, he worked for 11 years in various capacities.
He founded the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), a non-profit NGO with its headquarters in Ahmedabad, in 1991. NCCL, recognised by the Ministry of Law and Justice, opposed social activist Medha Patkar and her Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in their attempts to stop construction of the Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat.
